Anyways, the shoot I found to be challenging because I didn't have the use of any flash or additional light. I had a ton of fluorescent lights. To be able to have a decent shutter speed, I had to crank the ISO to the highest setting. I tried to use the fastest shutter speed I could considering I was shooting a lot of intricate movement. Also, the amount of background activity led to a lot of creative cropping. Multiple classes going on at once, parents looming in the background and me not having a bigger telephoto zoom lens, it was a great learning experience for shooting similar events.
I think a lot of the shots came out okay, but I think they only came out okay with heavy use of Lightroom. Ehhh...I shouldn't say "heavy"...Some shots barely needed to be touched, but I'd always find something wrong. I would get great shots technically, but then wouldn't use the picture because I didn't get something usable. Or I would get shots that were only great after the editing.
I went to Hooper Camera to look up lighting rigs for the portrait studio and then hot shoe flashes for the camera. Not a bad place, but just a bit out of my price point at the moment...A few more gigs will hopefully get me a better zoom lens, then a better hot shoe flash.
I'm getting a lot of mentoring from a couple friends that are already shooting professionally. I just want to take some time to say "Thanks"...
On to the next one!
