rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

This evening, my wife and I attended a Musical Revue, called "Extraordinary Women", at nearby St. Mary's College. I wasn't thinking photography, which is usually specifically banned at such an event, so the only camera in my possession was my Nokia cell phone, and my wife picked a table, in a front corner, only because she could see the stage, albeit from a very sharp angle; however, it turned out to have several good photographic sight-lines, and that turned out to be important when the first words spoken by the narrator were an invitation to take pictures - and to post them on the Internet - so I did the best with what I had. Incidentally I didn't notice any other person taking still pictures, and only one taking occasional video. My one issue was the LED light-stands they had scattered along the walls; I could not get a good image if one of them was shining into my lens, so that was a major limitation of directions I could point my camera. Those LEDs were the major cause of the funky colors you see in my images.

The show consisted of words about how women have been portrayed on stage and screen over the years, with performers demonstrating. The performers sang from all parts of the room - with very little happening on the stage - but as I said, we had several sight-lines, while many of the tables had tables {with people} in every direction.

My phone creates 16:9 images with a view equivalent to that provided by a 28mm lens on a 35mm camera; I did plumb one image slightly, but the only other editing I did was to crop them to 3:2. On all these images, the aperture was wide-open at f/2.4, but that provided plenty of DOF on a crop 7.0 camera like this. I have included other data from the pictures, because I found decisions made by its automation to be interesting.

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ISO 320 => 1/20 shutter speed ::: opening

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ISO 80 => 1/20 shutter speed ::: narrator {notice spotlight operator on elevated platform opposite us}

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ISO 500 => 1/17 shutter speed ::: soloist coming down stairs from other elevated platform {notice LED lightstand just to our right of the platform}

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ISO 64 => 1/26 shutter speed ::: finale

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