dave13 wrote in post #2496333
1) I had a choice of lenses I
could have used. I left the 85 1.2 at the studio. I put the 50 1.8 back in the bag. I left the 80-200 2.8 in the car, on purpose. I wanted
some flexability in focal ranges and my boss was out of town with his 17-55 2.8.
I do value everyones input and advise for future shoots. And, will file it away for future use.
2) On a sidenote, they didn't want perfection. They specifically asked for gritty rock shots. Technical shortcomings aside, in the end, 3) they are happy with their pictures.
1) ahhh ... okay??? I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. It only makes sense if for some reason you are taking people's comments as personally reflecting on you and your intelligence, so now it's like ... "well, I could have shot with an $1,800 lens if I wanted to ... and my choice was deliberate not stupid." That's being way over sensitive to feel that you have to defend your access to great gear or your decision making. And it has nothing to do with the end result, ie. doesn't make a hazy picture suddenly sharp.
I hear you that the room was tough ... but, that doesn't make the pictures suddenly sharp and isn't the whole idea of using flash to counteract all those conditions and get sharp shots???
2) Well, congrats then ... He He! Laugh, you set yourself up for that one ;D As is, in your justification of your decision to go with flash, and the kit lens, you never said "I chose this lens because I didn't want to get perfect shots ... etc. .... wanted gritty shots, etc., etc," It seems you mean gritty = hazy and soft. But I've seen - at least to me - gritty is not hazy, maybe not knife sharp, but pretty solid. So I wouldn't say that gritty and hazy and soft are the same. I think, for the sake of learning, it's important to distinguish the terms and not consider them necessarily complementary.
3) Look, here's the rub. It's great the band liked them. And it's obvious that you mention that to kind of say "in the end it doesn;'t matter what others think." But frankly, I don't care what the band thinks. I mean, does my opinion that the sound was great mean anything to a professional soundman, if to his professional standards, the sound was muddy, fuzzy, etc.
What really counts here is do you like them? Are they representative of you? And if they are. Then screw the band and screw us and what's with this need to explain your decisionmaking, etc., etc. But if you are not happy with them. If they are not representative of you. Well ... then admit it and learn, keep striving to better/push yourself [as everyone from me to Dwight does] and come back and posts photos that are.
The walls, black. Ceiling, black. Floor, dark wood. Light? It vanishes. I could have shot it with a wider lens with a faster ss, but would have traded something resembling relative sharpness for a very shallow dof, which after a few test shots of the opening band, was just too shallow.
