Dance and Gymnastics

[suprspi]

I shot my daughters dance recital today with my borrowed (slowly becoming mine somehow) Olympus. I had to pump the ISO up to get hand-holdable shutter speeds in the poor lighting. I also put together a layout from a gymnastics practice I shot the other day.

Images are a bit noisy, but I'm happy with how they turned out.

First, gymnastics layout:


Then at the dance recital I got brave and put myself on stage to take a picture of the crowd and performers. It's amazing how people think you're official and proffesional when you have a "real looking camera" with a "great big lens". That would be the E-410 with 40-150 kit lens on. *grin* I cropped and did a contrasty BW for effect.


Ivadel had her feet start hurting towards the end of the performance. She used 3 year old logic and plopped herself down on the floor to take off her shoes and remove the pain. Good Girl!


My favourite from the day. Ivy playing with the mirror in the studio. I did a selective colour on it in Lightroom to make the reflection B&W. I'm really happy with this.


Thanks for looking, and thanks for your comments if you choose to share them.

[Hayward Taylor]

Hi there - these are wonderful images ... well she is certainly not afraid of heights .. that's good .. and I love your treatment on the last photo .. you're very creative ... these are nice