College Girls...

[tofuboy]

The pictures in this set were taken at a pageant put on by my old University's Vietnamese Student Association to raise money for charity, blah blah blah. Anyways, it was a nice opportunity for me to go take pictures I don't typically take. Anyways, here they are...

http://photography.tofuboy.net/Hoa_Khoi_2005/

And about the settings I used and lighting (or lack thereof).

All of the pictures were shot through the 70-200 f/2.8 L IS on a 300D with ISO 800, f/2.8, 1/100s, no flash... the lighting was less than desireable, and I didn't like the effect my 580EX had on the photos I took of the rehearsal the night before, so I had to compromise. With those settings I used, most of the pictures were underexposed by 1 to 2 stops, thank goodness for shooting in RAW mode. I ran all of the images through Noise Ninja with an 'normal' setting for that ISO on my camera. Other than that, I only adjusted the curves a bit, and added a small amount of sharpening.

Any comments, critiques, and/or suggestions are welcome. If you look at the photos I took at the pageant the year before (http://photography.tofuboy.net/Hoa_Khoi_2004/)... you'll see the difference a year of practicing/learning and a better lens can make :)

Oh, and I haven't posted in a while... so, Hi again :)

[shoot_a_star]

Those look great. I have no comment.

[Raj]

tofuboy, some great pics there, i like them.
Although I found some of them a bit soft. But all in all, they are nice pictures.

[Skip Souza]

Nicely done. I could see where you were struggling with the light, or should I say lack of light. Overall you did well.
Yes there were al lot of pretty girls. I will wager that the performances were worth watching.
My favorite was the first one, upper left. I could just imagine him doing a Gene Kelly like routine.
Keep up the good work.

[PhotosGuy]

They look nice.

[tofuboy]

Thanks for the comments and replies. Maybe next year I can convince them to shine more light on stage... or maybe I'll have a camera with better high iso performance.

I also think I succeeded in using a catchy title :)