{"id":5976,"date":"2013-03-03T21:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T11:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2013-03-03T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T11:59:41","slug":"handheld-night-street-photography-with-olympus-e-m5-and-panasonic-20mm-pancake-lens-melbournes-white-night-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5976","title":{"rendered":"Handheld night street photography with Olympus E-M5 and Panasonic 20mm pancake lens – Melbourne’s “White Night” event"},"content":{"rendered":"

On a warm balmy summer night, Melbourne hosted its 2nd “White Night” event of all night long cultural activities which attracted unprecedented crowds surpassing even New Year’s Eve crowds.<\/p>\n

In such crowds a tripod is just asking for trouble, and a kit zoom lens is not going to suffice.<\/p>\n

Many of the attractions were projected images on Melbourne’s buildings and what better way to capture these in dense crowds than to use the Olympus E-M5<\/a> Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> hand held with a tiny Panasonic 20mm f\/1.7 pancake lens<\/a> which of course is effectively image stabilised thanks to the E-M5 making it an awesome compact night street photography combination.<\/p>\n

These were all taken at ISO 800, mostly at shutter speeds 1\/10th-1\/50th sec and at f\/1.7 (except the last one which was f\/2.8).<\/p>\n

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Birrarung Marr art installation:
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The band plays under Flinders St railway station clocks:<\/p>\n

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Projected buildings:
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Projected love messages on the Yarra River:
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On a warm balmy summer night, Melbourne hosted its 2nd “White Night” event of all night long cultural activities which attracted unprecedented crowds surpassing even New Year’s Eve crowds. In such crowds a tripod is just asking for trouble, and a kit zoom lens is not going to suffice. Many of the attractions were projected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,90,3],"tags":[240,18,494,241,499,207,14,252,272],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melbourne","category-night","category-photography","tag-e-m5","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-melbourne","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-night","tag-night-photography","tag-olympus","tag-olympus-e-m5","tag-panasonic-20mm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t