DSLR Speed Challenge #114: Night Life

Congrats Jason!

Great job everybody!!

Thanks for the 2nd Ed, and congrats Jason!

Super entries everyone!

I learned a valuable "art" lesson from that Dance Floor shot. When my wife and I got back from Jamaica last month, when went through our usual ritual of unpacking, starting wash and all of the normal domestic tasks - then settled in with a glass of wine to review the vacation photos.

As we skimmed through them I cringed at all of the nightclub shots (my first time ever shooting at 1600 with no flash) because most of them were a horrifically blurry. As the pictures zipped by on the computer all I could think was "delete, delete, delete", until that one popped up and my wife really liked it. I think at that point I made a rather sour expression and kept skimming - and it wasn't until the next morning when I looked at it again, that I started to warm up to it. Now it's one of my favorite shots...

Beauty, eye of the beholder, and so forth. So I learned that I should always give shots that I don't like, a second chance.

Looking forward to 115

Chris it's not just the exposure, motion and lighting that grabs me, but also the composition. Just love how you notice nothing but legs and feet on the women, I don't see or notice any men. Beautifully done.

I don't like to delete anything when it's from a vacation. Every shot is a memory, good or not. I have a fireworks shot from the four weeks I spent in Florence, Italy. Plopped my Samsung 35mm film camera on a stone wall and took a bulb exposure, horrifically poor. But I love it anyway, I can still smell the air from that night, ten years later.

Congrats!!!!

Once again, thank you.

DSLR Speed Challenge #115 is up!

Jason C

Too funny.

I didn't even know what "second curtain" was until you posted that (I still have a lot to learn), so thanks for educating me. Looking forward to the contributions.