{"id":460,"date":"2009-08-06T23:05:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T21:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/?p=460"},"modified":"2009-08-11T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:23:39","slug":"muscial-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/muscial-performance","title":{"rendered":"Muscial Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to be the official photographer covering the performance of a childrens musical. Over 130 kids performed on stage &#8211; everything else was a huge volunteer effort by the parents. It was great fun to see how enthusiastic the kids (aged 6 to about 19) were and how much fun they were having on stage!<\/p>\n<p>It was also a great learning experience, since this was the first time I have done any stage photography. Out of over 1000 exposures I got about 500 that are decent and 150 that I consider good. The main lesson here: consider depth of field. It will not do to shoot several people with an aperture of f2.8 if they are not exactly the same distance from the camera.<\/p>\n<p>The second lesson is that I need to sort out the model releases before, not after, the event. Now I am identifying the performers and contacting them or their parents directly for permission to publish &#8211; it would have been much easier if we had sorted this out when the kids signed up to participate.<\/p>\n<p>Here are &#8220;Wolfgang 4&#8221; (Mozart as a man) with his mother:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doenges.com\/g\/v\/People\/musical-484.jpg.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doenges.com\/photos\/albums\/People\/musical-484.jpg\" alt=\"Performers 'Wolfgang 4' and 'Mozarts Mother' in the musical.\" width=\"600\" \/> <\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performers 'Wolfgang 4' and 'Mozarts Mother'.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I get the releases straightened out, I will post more images of the event. Subscribe the RSS feed to be notified of updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to be the official photographer covering the performance of a childrens musical. Over 130 kids performed on stage &#8211; everything else was a huge volunteer effort by the parents. It was great fun to see how enthusiastic the kids (aged 6 to about 19) were and how much fun they were having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[778,724,779,574],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-musical","tag-people-photography","tag-performers","tag-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}