It’s light now when I leave work in the evenings. Roll on summer!
Last night was the final night of this term’s DramSoc production, Don Juan on Trial, which I had been roped into doing the lighting design for (by Jude, of course). It was in the round in the concert hall – which made my life harder – but it was still one of the most fun productions I’ve been in recently. Oh, and the lighting was marvelous. Photos to follow.
And that brings me to my final light-related thing – photography. Taking photos for Don Juan was again fraught with difficulties – mainly a lack of light. Which is not surprising, given that it was set in an abandoned chateau at night! I’ve been waiting a while for a new lens with a much bigger apeture, but it hasn’t turned up yet. So the photos were all heavily underexposed, and taken using ISO 1600, in the hope of getting a fast enough shutter to get sharp photos. For reasons that I’m not quite sure of, most compact digital cameras are much better in low-light situations – they ‘force’ the photo by default (i.e. use a reasonable shutter speed, and push the ISO to the limits). It’s a lot harder to persuade my SLR to do it’s stuff when it’s outside of it’s happy zone.
