Hoo boy...

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wlewisiii

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We go to my wife's church this evening for the Saturday night service, a potluck dinner and a for charity ice cream social. As always, I have my Kiev 5 and kit with me, a half shot roll of BW400CN in it. The organizer of the social starts talking to me and asks if I'm a professional photographer. Even though I explain that I'm not, she asks me to take some shots of the kids eating ice cream for the newsletter and to show the sponsors of the event. I agree and burn out the rest of the BW thinking they probably would prefer color for this.

I have one roll of color with me: Portra NC. ISO 160. In a church basement lit by florecents and no flash unit along. :bang: Not quite available darkness, but close enough with fast moving children. F2 and 1/25 or 1/50 for the most part. Got up to 2.8 at one point... I am so glad I had a meter along.

Well, we'll see what there is when I get the film back tomorrow, but I have serious doubts about color and blur, not to mention how thin the DOF is at those F stops.

So, Hoo boy...

William
 
The moral of the story: you should have carried a digital camera and chimp your way out of the deal.

But no, William... You had to carry your legitimate journalist-from-the-fifties-looking camera, and of course, since nobody could figure it out... it had to be a professional camera.

That, needless to say, makes you a pro! :)

Don't fret over it. The photos will turn up fine and you'll have saved the day and earned some reputation.

Then, again, the moral of the story is...

Come on! Chip in with a moral here! ;)
 
what you want to hear:

your kiev is a super camera that magical makes every shot perfect and adds infinite depth. years from now people will look back and say, how did he DO that (with a kiev)!

heh, shoulda told the kids to slow down. anyway, I shoot at f4 indoors with 1/30th and things are usually sharp, then again the subjects are usually relativly still.
 
Well, they didn't come out too bad afterall. Guess it's better to lucky than good... :D

William
 
i like the first one, it's more than "not too bad"! On the second one i see some signs of underexposure of the CN... like the greenisk frainy shadows. Boy i hate that on my pics. Did you scan the neg? You could compensate for that, maybe.
 
Not too bad for a rookie photojournalist, especially after the request was so sudden and you had no time to plan or prepare... ;) That lens you're using seems pretty wide, William. What kind is it? :confused:

Post more! I liked the first better, because the girl is looking at you (if she only had smiled...). About the underexposure... I don't know: after all, you weren't shooting under sunlight, so the cast is expectable.

Good job! And, again, post more! :)
 
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