{"id":1951,"date":"2019-11-23T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2019-11-23T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:46:06","slug":"getting-back-into-the-saddle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/23\/getting-back-into-the-saddle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting back into the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unusually, I decided to photograph a recent concert at the Cri’Art. Unusually, because as a general rule, the lighting is crap (all coming from behind) and the lighting technician is so doped out of his head, he spends most of the performance just playing with the lighting control faders with no real effort to create a cohesive ‘plan’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided, against this very negative backdrop, to test my \u00ab\u00a0one lens\u00a0\u00bb project at a concert. The equipment was simple, a Nikon D3s and the 85mm f\/1.8 AF-S – this is a very ‘luminous’ lens – not the ‘fastest’ 85mm – there is an f\/1.4 but at 1300\u20ac I think I’ll pass thank you. Combined with AutoISO I thought I had a good chance of capturing something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As this is not my normal \u00ab\u00a0go to\u00a0\u00bb concert lens*, I was using the experience to learn how it handled, in particular, the depth of the depth of field ‘wide open’ at f\/1.8. Most concert artists move around a lot, and with V**** terrible lighting, I had to be able to stop the action, but also have sufficient DOF to render a usable image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n