Tonight I went to Circular Quay/Darling Harbor to check out a restaurant that I am going to shoot a party in. It's a real nice joint in the the Harborside centre. I was mostly going to check out things that will effect/ruin my chances of getting goods images... and there's a lot of those :) The dinner is to be held on the balcony. If the weather is fair, the event will be held with the roof retracted, which means no roof to bonce flash off. There is only 1 wall, and it is a glass window :)
So this leaves me with a mission to find a way to reliably and pleasingly photograph a couple and their guests, in less than ideal lighting. As will always be the way. The other fun thing is that until 7:30pm, the sun will be reflecting off the city opposite (or behind me in this photo above), meaning the light behind most of my subjects will be super-bright, and I will have to find a way of matching that artificially. There's a "magic" half hour where the sky-light is beautiful, and the ambient light is JUST enough to shoot and get nice images.. well, at least on my 5DmkII. The 60D will struggle. After that magic 30 minutes, it will be dark with no roof.
Of course, if it rains I will have a roll out white roof. But it's no fun for a family to choose such a beautiful spot if it rains, so I can hardly "hope" for that.
Above is a single shot at high ISO of 3200, f/4, 1/10s. I really should have increased the iso and closed the lens aperture a bit, but this image surprised me anyway - such depth, and no noise correction software used at all. The 5D might be an oldy, but is surely is STILL a goody.
Just a handheld snap of fireworks. Some motion blur, oh well.
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