Good pic at dark recital
I've been messing around with this since my daughter started dance 4 years ago. We are sitting in the dark audience and my daughter is aways away on the bright stage. So far no good pics with my point and shoot. i'm ordering a cannon rebel with the 55-200 telephoto zoom lense in addition. Any suggestions on how to get good photos at the dance recitals??
Try to get as close to the stage as possible. If the stage is some what well lite set the ISO of your camera at 400 if you can get close to the stage, around 30 to 50 feet. The farther back you are the higher ISO you will probably need.
Don't use a flash. Set the camera to "P" mode to start...this way the camera will adjust itself without using the flash.
While in this mode you can still make changes to the settings using the thumb wheels. It will take some experimenting but you can get some good shots with what you have.
The attached photos I shot at 1600ISO from about 1000 feet + from the stage. Aperture was at f/4.0 at 70mm... no flash was used. This is a some what slow lens. Sigma f/4 70-300mm.
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