"Spirit" - a musical

[Didache]

Hi all

Over this week I have been involved with a musical put on by three churches in my area. It's the story from Pentecost to the conversion of Saul and was a pretty large affair with a cast of around 40 and a small but very good orchestra. I was the narrator. Tonight was the last performance and I took the opportunity to take some pictures during the performance itself. I couldn't move around and all were taken using the available light - even so, I was quite pleased with the results.

The pictures are:

Jesus
A Jewish widow complaining
The wise Gamaliel
Ananias restoring sight to Saul
Saul

Cheers
Mike

[shootme]

Mike, for me I really like 1,2,3 & 5 great portraits, contrast and color and the sharpness worked really well, my favorite is #2. Seems to much light on the 4th shot. Where you using a flash or relying on stage light, or both?

[Didache]

shootme - thanks for looking. You are right about No 4 - not that there was too much light, more that I did a bad post-processing job on it

I was relying on stage lights - it was the actual performance so flash would have been intrusive. Also, I was restricted to my seat in my role as narrator. All images taken with a 50-200mm lens and ISO 800.

I have reprocessed No 4. You can see it, together with the other pics I've done so far at:

http://www.mikedalesphotography.co.u...olio41719.html

Cheers
Mike

[shootme]

Mike, wow that's incredible, I change my favorite to Stephen, the composition of the shot is great, the contrast also with the light and shade playing off each other. #4 looks spot on. Well done. S

[SmartWombat]

I would say the 3rd shot, looks like well-captured emotion there, a good performance.