People (event)

I decided to take my camera to an event to try out taking shots of people who were not posing and with different forms of lighting. The main problem that I had was I used the flash on the camera to give me the best shot but due to the low level lighting at the venue I got a lot of red eye. I managed to clean some of this up by using an on line program: PICNIK. I also used the same program to lighten some of the images as they were a little dark. I also used auto for most of the shots because I found while I was using the camera on manual that I was taking most of the time playing with the settings and missing some good shots. So I stuck for the moment with auto and cleaned them up later on. I used my Sony a200 camera with my zoom lens (60-300). With this lens I was able the stand at the back of the room and zoom in on to the person I wanted to photograph. By doing this I was able to zoom past people in the audience and get a clean shot of my target. I think next time I will try to use the Aperture priority setting as this works a little better in low level lighting.