My photographic experiences #1 : Outdoor salsa without sun

in #photography8 years ago (edited)

Hey friends,

Yesterday, with my Salsa School, we started our summer outdoor dance animations. It is a weekly event. Every Friday, during 3 hours from 7pm to 10pm, we put music and invite our whole city to come and dance with us. As photographer, salsa is a challenging exercise. Especially because of the management of light. I made the choice last night of black and white because I wanted absolutely to keep contrast above all. For several years now, I have turned to the fixed focal lens by telling me that my legs can serve me for zooming. I always take with my 5D mark IV my 3 fetish lens:

  • 135mm F2 L canon, my darling
  • 50mm F1.4 canon, the indispensable
  • 24mm F1.4 ART Sigma (For info, my practice of the photo does not generate enough income for me to pleasure with a F1.4L canon, but sigma does rather well the job)

The pictures you see are optimized for a web format and not really suitable for printing. This is the big difference between this type of reportage and wedding photography.

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Very nice

Cool shots!!

Great photos!

Awesome photos. I like black and white photos but in yours i also felt the energy

I use dancers energy !!! hihihihi

Great photos and unique post, thank you.

Some beauties in there! Great stuff, love what you're saying about legs being a better zoom. I feel like I rely on my zoom too much sometimes. Maybe a fixed lens would help with that.

thank you,
In photography, I find that some constraints force us to develop new skills.
Otherwise, the fixed lens are always better than zoom.

Definitely going to look into getting a fixed lens soon!