Correspondances - Part One

Well, hello out there.  How are you all doing?  It's been a while since we last spoke.  After my little photography exhibition I decided to take a little bit of a break.  I figured you might be getting a little bit sick of me and my constant updates over the last few days of my show so I figured I'd lay low for a little while and see if it's true when people say that absence makes the heart grow fonder.  I haven't been doing nothing these last few weeks.  Other than doing some quality control on the comfort of my couch and the clarity of my television, I also managed to take in the yearly production of my favourite local theater group, Le Choeur Vives Voix.  The production this year was called Correspondances and I really enjoyed it.  This was actually my fourth show with the group, and I can't believe that I've been shooting their shows for four years now.  It's true that time goes by rather fast.  For those of you interested, here are the links to the other shows that I've photographed for them.  Facade (Part One & Part Two), Romeo vs Juliette (Part One & Part Two) and finally there are a couple of pictures floating around the 2012 Pages of this site of the first show I photographed, Contre Temps.  I had even begun this blog yet when I shot that show.  I suppose that I should talk a little bit about the photographs.  As with all the other years, the biggest stuggle I have is finding enough light to get a fast enough shutter speed.  This year the lighting was probably the brightest of the four years I've been there, and it allowed me to play around with some different apertures.  Nothing to drastic.  I'm still using my rapidly aging 30D with its ISO that only goes up to 3200, so very rarely was a I able to get the aperture past f/5.  The first photograph here on the page was taken at f/3.5, 1/100sec, ISO 3200 at 30mm.  The second photograph was taken at f/5, 1/100sec, ISO 3200, -0.7 exposure at 59mm.  Here are a few more photographs that I took.

f/5, 1/80sec, ISO 3200, -0.7 exposure at 24mm

f/4.5, 1/50sec, ISO 3200, -0.7 exposure at 24mm

f/4.5, 1/80sec, ISO 3200, -0.7 exposure at 24mm

f/4.5, 1/100 sec, ISO 3200, -0.7 exposure at 25mm.

I'm really happy with the way these came out.  In the past, I would have just left my camera at f.2.8 in the desire to get the fastest speed possible.  Being able to get up to f/5 doesn't provide a huge difference, but it meant the actor in the background of the second photograph was a little bit clearer than he would have been at f/2.8.  These photographs all came from the first half of the show, and I'll have another update up sometime soon with some photographs from the second half.