I spent some time shooting at a friends party this weekend. I knew going in that it would challenge my almost-nonexistant skills in shooting hand-held candids:
- space (old warehouse) is not attractive/noisy backgrounds and clutter
- brick walls painted bright and shiny white
- matte black ceilings
- brightly lit with low-hung bright fluorescents
- and everybody moving
Against novice me and my D90 w/kit lens
So yup... my stills turned out nice, some very nice for me.
But 95% percent of shots with people were blurry, streaked etc.
I go into to things like this to challenge myself and end up forgetting some detail that kills the shots. This time, I kept the ISO way, way too low for indoors... I knew better but got caught up in all else and didn't keep an eye on it.
Gah!
I feel like I need crib notes for combos of ISO, Aperture and Shutter that at least get me headed in the right direction when shooting particular scenes until I do it so much that it becomes habit. Any leads on such a matrix? For example:
Combo: Indoors, low light, moving subjects, no flash, handheld etc... Despite having the LCD for reference, I still goof up.
Just a wee bit of a rant... my expectations far exceed my skill set.
I did like a couple shots not involving human faces :P