Nanjing China Dancers

[jcore]

The Nanjing Dance troupe was performing at lunch in Singapore and I tried to shoot with and without flash. These girls were so cute and great dancers. I would appreciate comments on taking performers (less zoom, no flash?). I am learning alot from the contributors.



Camera Canon EOS 30D
Exposure 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 300 mm
ISO Speed 640
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash On, Red-eye reduction
Focus Mode AI Focus AF
Metering Mode Partial
Lens Type Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

[tyasa81]

Hi, from a fellow newbie in taking performance pics... just sharing thoughts and my own critique results...

your photo that's currently showing could be more qualified as a portrait... it doesn't show that she's dancing... i guess several of these among a bigger picture would be fine but as a single photo of a performance it's not really showing it as the stage...

i did glance through your flickr...and notice you did take a more zoom out photos of choreographed dancing with several showing awesome moves... like does these peole have bones or are they just made of jello? anyway... maybe you could post several of the others here to give a more complete picture of the event... of course 1 day at a time to avoid incurring the wrath of the mods (not certain about this since personally i've never posted more than 1 just to avoid any hassel...)

for the current pic, i think your use of flash is for fill? since i still can see the sideways shadow.. guessing the main light is from picture right high... anway... what i notice is that the face and the hands are not evenly lit with the face a little underexposed... not sure why that is though... you should be far enough @300 for the fill to evenly lit the hands and face, and not sure what kind of main light can cause this effect... if you can fix this in post it'll be great... the expression is lovely so you definitely caught the right moment... overall... a nice portrait capture of the moment... do post more

[jcore]

Tyasa, yes the flash was to augment the ambient lighting from 2 sets of flood lights on the stage (right and left). The event was well photographed (lots of amateurs firing away, some with flash and some with out).

Thanks for comments. Here's another with more dance movement.

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