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Photography — Indoor Advice Please?
I am an inexperienced photographer teaching myself photography. I will be shooting in a club with low lighting, poorly provided by spotlights with different color gels. There will be lots of movement/action from the subjects.
I am using a Nikon F3 HP, with the f-stop on 2.8, shutter speed on 60, and I will push the ASA double. I am not using a monopod. Nikkor 50 mm lens with an indoor filter is being used.
Is the Kodak Portra 800 VC film better to use, or the Fujicolor Superia 1600?
Please give me your reasons.
You can’t specify your aperture and shutter speed until you know what lighting levels your going to get.
If your developing for twice the rated ISO set your meter to the new higher value and put your camera on to Aperture Priority, with the lens wide open. The camera will tell you the shutter speed which will give a reasonable exposure. Then, at least, you know what ‘ballpark’ you’re in.
A faster lens is useful in these circumstances and usually use my standard 50mm f1.2, every half stop counts.
B&W film is far more tolerant of under/over exposure than colour.
If you can get close and brace yourself against something solid like a wall or the stage itself you can shoot 1/30th of a second or even slower with practice. Anticipating where movement ends is also a useful skill in these circumstances. A guitarist swinging his guitar from side to side has a instant when He’s still at the end of the swing.
Try to get the face, particularly the eyes, of the performer sharp and without blur, any peripheral movement can actually add to the picture.
Chris
Photography Color Gels
Lomography – Diana F+ vs. Holga?
I’ve recently grown interest with lomography cameras, and was wondering which one i should get: the Diana F+/ the Holga/ or the Holga 35mm camera.
I’m really a beginner with photography, and don’t really understand all the specs lingo. All I know is that the Holga has color gels for more variety – which i like.
What are the other differences between the Diana and Holga? Plus, what is different between the original Holga and the 35mm? Are 35mm films are easily accessible/ cheaper than the Holga films (medium format??!)?
I just need a little guidance as a to what styles of photos each will be able to take.
Refs:
http://www.lomographyasia.com/shop/?showproduct=523&showcat1=1
http://www.lomographyasia.com/shop/?showproduct=418
http://www.lomographyasia.com/shop/?showproduct=458&showcat1=1
35mm films are easier to find and get processed, but the original camera was the vintage Diana, which was originally given out as a premium at gas stations, or sold for a few dollars at the toy stores.
In the 60′s and 70′s, these inexpensive 120 film cameras were used to teach basic photography. As the word got out, more and more photographers began working with the simple plastic lensed camera as a means to escape from the more and more complicated cameras that were being made. The popularity made the vintage Diana, once plentifully sold for a dollar or two at thrift stores and yard sales, a highly sought after camera, often selling for over a $100 dollars on ebay in the late 90s.
Around the same time, a manufacturer in China was making a knock-off of the simple cameras (like the Agfa Isoly) popular at the time, to sell locally.
From this simple camera, the Holga was born. The timing couldn’t have been better, as the photographers looking for a simple plastic camera with a plastic lens eagerly accepted the Holga as Diana’s successor.
Flash forward. Lomography, a marketing company, has been successfully promoting the wonders of low-tech photography through the sales of the Chinese made Holga and the Russian made LC-A.
Building on that success, they came out with their own reproduction of the vintage Diana in late 2007. It is like the vintage Diana, with many modifications. The Diana+ closely resembles the camera from which it is patterned after, but the designers at Lomography went several steps further, adding a pinhole aperture and also a removable plastic lens. In addition to the original 75mm lens sold with the camera, they also sell a 55mm wide-angle lens and a fisheye lens. It has in effect, become a plastic or toy camera system.
Which is better? Each is good in it’s own way. If you would like to test the idea of working with plastic cameras out, I would recommend you start with Holga. It’s much cheaper than the Diana, and a good camera to have in your collection, even if you decide to move onto the DianaF+.
For Holga, look for other sellers than Lomography, as Lomo tends to charge a premium for their Holgas. For the Diana+, go to the Lomo store.
The Holga 135BC (get the BC for Black Corner effect) is a good camera, but I prefer the square format. It’s a good choice if you have trouble finding 120 film or finding labs to get 120 film processed.
To see what kinds of photos each camera makes, go to Flickr and find groups for:
Holga 135bc,Holga,Diana+
Portrait Photography using color gels
What is the best color of seamless paper for photography if i want to use it with flash and colored gels?
Some people seem to think grey is better but i don’t know why? Is white better to use as a background if i am going to transform it to blue with a flash and gel?
What shade of grey?
Yes grey is correct.
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