Our annual company meeting and convention was a couple weeks ago, Monday morning till Friday morning. I took my camera and a little bit of my gear, because I drag it around everywhere I go just to practice practice. I took plenty of snapshots at our vendors' trade show, and a bunch of candids at the awards dinner and awards presentation.
The organizers had a surprise for us after the awards presentation: Taylor Hicks and the Soul Patrol!
I had a tiny bit of advance notice, though I wish they had told me about this before I packed my gear to leave home. I was pressed into service to take snapshots at the VERY BRIEF meet-n-greet after the show... Taylor had a plane to catch, so I did some rapid-fire shooting of coworkers standing in front of a mockup storefront banner. Forty portraits in seven minutes - we were blowin' through em fast. He was gracious enough to stick around an extra thirty seconds to take one with me, too. I wish I had brought better lighting equipment for the portraits; all I had was my Speedlite sitting on a table, bouncing off a ceiling with a paper napkin taped up for a bounce card.
The show was great. I'm a big fan of southern rock and blues and soul. The crew gave me almost full-run of the stage area so I was able to get really close.
These are all with my 60D, 50mm f/1.4 wide open, ISO800-3200, 1/80-1/125. I adjusted settings on-the-fly as lighting changed.
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by nathancarter, on Flickr2.
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by nathancarter, on Flickr3.
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by nathancarter, on Flickr4.
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by nathancarter, on Flickr5.
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by nathancarter, on Flickr6.
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by nathancarter, on Flickr7. At the time, this was my favorite of the night, but after editing and sorting, some of the others really make me happy too.
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by nathancarter, on Flickr8.
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by nathancarter, on FlickrA handful more on my Flickr page.
