{"id":603,"date":"2009-03-25T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T10:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=603"},"modified":"2009-03-25T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T10:43:14","slug":"whirling-dervishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Whirling Dervishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were three of them, performing in in a dimly lit hall in a leisure centre in Tooting, at the Eid Milad-Un-Nabi<\/em> celebrations of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad organised by the Sunni Muslim Association<\/em>, and I really couldn’t quite work out how to photograph them.<\/p>\n

Working with flash seemed a good idea, since even with the D700 giving pretty good results at ISO 3200,\u00a0 it was hard to get both enough depth of field and a sensible shutter speed, but even more of a problem was that the lighting in which they were performing was extremely uneven.\u00a0 Using the flash, I also wanted to get some ambient exposure to avoid very dark backgrounds and also give some feeling of movement to the figures.<\/p>\n

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My decision in the heat of the moment was that 1\/8 would probably give me enough blur and I set that as my slowest speed with flash. I set an ISO of 1250 as the18-200 zoom I was using only covered the smaller DX area and quality was more important, set the flash into TTL FP mode, the camera on P and then forgot about it, concentrating on getting pictures.<\/p>\n

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I was also using the D300 with a 20mm wide open at f2.8 with no flash, which gave slightly underexposed results at around 1\/60 ISO 1600. There were far fewer usable images from this, though I did get one with a fairly dramatic silhouette.<\/p>\n

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You can see more pictures of the Whirling Dervishes as usual on My London Diary<\/a>, where you can also read something about the deeply religious significance of their performance.\u00a0 But they were only a small part of the event I photographed, and although they had particularly attracted me to the event, as usual it was the people rather than the performers that I think more interesting in the pictures that I took.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There were three of them, performing in in a dimly lit hall in a leisure centre in Tooting, at the Eid Milad-Un-Nabi celebrations of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad organised by the Sunni Muslim Association, and I really couldn’t quite work out how to photograph them. Working with flash seemed a good idea, since … Continue reading Whirling Dervishes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}