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<blockquote data-quote="Iman60" data-source="post: 38714" data-attributes="member: 7998">Re: A&nbsp; day in the&nbsp; life&nbsp; of a&nbsp; cafeok I have&nbsp; had&nbsp; dinner&nbsp; now.. so my brain is&nbsp; working a&nbsp; little&nbsp; more&nbsp; than it was&nbsp; before&nbsp; I ate.These&nbsp; were&nbsp; all shot in manual mode with the&nbsp; shutter at about 1/50 sec and&nbsp; 1/40 sec. The&nbsp; aperture&nbsp; was&nbsp; at F2.8What I was looking for&nbsp; here&nbsp; was a&nbsp; sense&nbsp; of&nbsp; motion, a&nbsp; feeling of&nbsp; portraying the&nbsp; chaotic choreographed rush that is&nbsp; a&nbsp; typical day in this busy cafe. Rather than focus on freezing motion and&nbsp; capturing balanced&nbsp; lighting, I was&nbsp; looking for a&nbsp; sense of&nbsp; intensity that matched&nbsp; the&nbsp; loud clattering of&nbsp; plates, and&nbsp; rushing of&nbsp; people.I did this kind of thing before and used flash, bounced off the ceiling, but I have&nbsp; had&nbsp; notoriously poor&nbsp; results&nbsp; with flash. I either get it spot on... or&nbsp; it looks just nasty.Perhaps&nbsp; I should have explained my intentions&nbsp; in greater detail in the&nbsp; beginning. Be&nbsp; that as&nbsp; it may.. this is&nbsp; what I was&nbsp; aiming for. I also realize&nbsp; that sometimes&nbsp; what I see in a&nbsp; photograph is&nbsp; VERY different from what other people see. Sometimes I&nbsp; will produce&nbsp; work that is&nbsp; very ambigious, not imediately obvious, or&nbsp; sometimes&nbsp; not at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Iman60, post: 38714, member: 7998"] [b]Re: A day in the life of a cafe[/b] ok I have had dinner now.. so my brain is working a little more than it was before I ate. These were all shot in manual mode with the shutter at about 1/50 sec and 1/40 sec. The aperture was at F2.8 What I was looking for here was a sense of motion, a feeling of portraying the chaotic choreographed rush that is a typical day in this busy cafe. Rather than focus on freezing motion and capturing balanced lighting, I was looking for a sense of intensity that matched the loud clattering of plates, and rushing of people. I did this kind of thing before and used flash, bounced off the ceiling, but I have had notoriously poor results with flash. I either get it spot on... or it looks just nasty. Perhaps I should have explained my intentions in greater detail in the beginning. Be that as it may.. this is what I was aiming for. I also realize that sometimes what I see in a photograph is VERY different from what other people see. Sometimes I will produce work that is very ambigious, not imediately obvious, or sometimes not at all. [/QUOTE]

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