Stage photos, promotion ceremony (Was: Bad technique or technical problem?)

Frank ess wrote:
Gremlin wrote:
Thanks to all


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Here's my experience from last Friday at a Middle School promotion
ceremony:
http://www.fototime.com/inv/A381069ED2940F4

It seemed to me my first and most effective weapon was IS on the
Canon
70-200 2.8L lens. Figuring the one-over f/l thumb-rule and gaining
two, maybe three stops advantage, I settled on 1/125 as the best
compromise, actually the maximum length of exposure I'd count on for
pretty good stability.


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I've added a 260K six-image panorama to the above-URLd album. The
originals were Small JPEGs generated along with raw images. PS CS2
Photomerge and crop, no other manipulations. Well, I clone-stamped two
moved faces, and should have done one more. No color or exposure or
sharpening manipulations.

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Canon 20D, Canon 70-200 2.8L IS
1/125 @ f/5.6 Manual exposure
200mm Hand held
Auto Focus, Auto White Balance

I am very impressed with the quality of the JPEG images. What do you
think?

--
Frank ess

It looks like your two problems may have been camera movement and the vast
difference in lighting between those in the background and those in the
foreground. It's tough to hand hold a 200 at 1/125, and IMHO a flash really
would have helped you out. It's like all the people in the background were
well lit, but everybody at the podium was not.

Given what you had to work with, not bad, however. If you had exposed
perfectly for the foreground everybody in the background would have washed
out. I have a D70 and have the same noise problems in low light that your
images exhibited.

I took some digital photos of my niece's graduation with a point and shoot
before I got my DSLR. Not enough zoom (yeah, I think that's her), but the
lighting on stage was even for everybody.


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Frank ess wrote:
Gremlin wrote:
Thanks to all


Snip


Here's my experience from last Friday at a Middle School promotion
ceremony:
http://www.fototime.com/inv/A381069ED2940F4

It seemed to me my first and most effective weapon was IS on the Canon
70-200 2.8L lens. Figuring the one-over f/l thumb-rule and gaining
two, maybe three stops advantage, I settled on 1/125 as the best
compromise, actually the maximum length of exposure I'd count on for
pretty good stability.


Más snip

I've added a 260K six-image panorama to the above-URLd album. The
originals were Small JPEGs generated along with raw images. PS CS2
Photomerge and crop, no other manipulations. Well, I clone-stamped two
moved faces, and should have done one more. No color or exposure or
sharpening manipulations.

Requires horizontal scrolling.

Canon 20D, Canon 70-200 2.8L IS
1/125 @ f/5.6 Manual exposure
200mm Hand held
Auto Focus, Auto White Balance

I am very impressed with the quality of the JPEG images. What do you
think?

--
Frank ess