{"id":3885,"date":"2013-04-28T17:07:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T21:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2013-04-28T17:07:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T21:07:01","slug":"prom-pics-the-date-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"Prom Pics &#8211; The Date Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kylieD3S.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3886\" title=\"kylieD3S\" src=\"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kylieD3S-480x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kylieD3S-480x600.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kylieD3S-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kylieD3S-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kylieD3S-220x275.jpg 220w, https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kylieD3S.jpg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I had the pleasure of making pictures with my buddy Alicen&#8217;s kid Kylie for her Prom. \u00a0We got to the location and started scoping out where we could shoot around 3PM. \u00a0Kylie gets onto location before her date does, and we head out to the water to make some shots. \u00a0The clouds looked wonderful this afternoon, so I switched from wanting to do location shooting in available light, to moving to some bigger flashes and trying to get something a little more &#8216;moody&#8217; given the blue and greens mixing in the sky. Off I go to get one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/12SJHa7\" target=\"_blank\">Priolites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I wanted to see if I could make a shot with the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/18beazB\" target=\"_blank\">Coolpix A<\/a> &#8211; not really for anything other than a &#8220;Lesse how this thing fares in this scenario. \u00a0While I think I\u00a0could&#8217;ve\u00a0nailed the mood on it, there just seemed to be a bunch of things that I was wrestling with at the time. \u00a0Because of the brightness on the subject and the brightness of the sky, it was really hard for me to get something focused in just right. \u00a0 Because it was bright outside, it make it extremely difficult to make a manual focus shot as I\u00a0couldn&#8217;t\u00a0see behind the screen. \u00a0Add to this that the camera is a fixed 35mm and you get a bunch of extra elements in the frame that you dont really want.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, it&#8217;s not really fair to Rank the camera in this space at all &#8211; it&#8217;s really\u00a0<em>meant<\/em>\u00a0to do any of this. \u00a0That said, I was\u00a0surprised\u00a0to see just how<em>close<\/em>\u00a0the camera got to something I would want. \u00a0In a more controlled scenario, I think I could totally eek out some shots with it, despite it being a street shooting machine. \u00a0 I quickly switched back to the D3s and worked in a lens range that was a lot more comfortable. \u00a0Switching back to an eyepiece and being able to find focus fast worked, and I got shots that had a lot more detail because of it.<\/p>\n<p>By this time, Kylie&#8217;s date arrives, and we are firing (no pun intended) on all cylinders ready to take some cool prom pictures. \u00a0 I&#8217;ll tell ya, I am ever grateful that I have easily over a dozen years before I need to do this!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23photography\">#photography<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Collapse this post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; Yesterday I had the pleasure of making pictures with my buddy Alicen&#8217;s kid Kylie for her Prom.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-photography","8":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3887,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}