I photographed a rave with a full manual (including focus) setup. My keeper rate was uhhh........... quite small.
it doesnt look like this at all in person
the dither goes silly on this one (first image dithered gif second image jpg)
dead end of mall. behind a fairly busy intersection. we sat on those little tables staring forward at the plastic wall for about an hour. many passersby were confused, concerned, scared, or just plain amused. we didn't really mean to commit to the idea for so long it just sorta happened.
28mm 2.8 manual focus k mount its capable of being p sharp
surprisingly few of these left unedited in the backlog. i take this exact shot so often. i'll prbobably figure out a place online to put them all next to each other someday
the final product is nothing what the preview window looked like. experimenting with masked sections of posterization and sections of dither
and that finishes what we started back in october. there's various other photoshoots i've been avoiding touching but I think I'm ready to get em done now.
coming back to this shoot with a better idea of how to edit it
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@(: I did end up "discovering" this for myself over the night, ended up basically zone focusing and raising ISO to shoot at like f5.6, by the end of it I realized I was kinda just canceling out any advantage the full frame sensor was giving me in the low light :P so all the shots that were acceptably in focus also have little to no subject background separation oopsie (i did take a thousand images though, so even with a low keeper rate the # of keepers is absolutely okay for what I was doing /shrug)
a classic street photography technique was to preset the focus at a fixed distance (say, focus at 5 meters with a decent depth of field) in order to take pictures very quickly without focusing. idk if that would even work in the context you were in, sharing for the curiosity factor
(this picture is neat too)