SelFies and SHoot THroughs

Attended the 10'th wedding anniversary of our youngest daughter and her husband - last night. A section of the restaurant was cordoned off for the enjoyment of the 60 guests.

I was instructed not to be bothering those invited by shooting personalized videos or turning the evening into an obvious shoot - - - so I restrained myself by sitting quietly on my own and looking for different ways to shoot inconspicuously.

And so I found many people sitting beside me with the arms on the table or their laps - creating gaps that I could shoot through. As is the trend now, everyone was shooting a ton of "Selfies" with their iPhones and iPads. And so while the subjects were occupied looking at their arms outstretched camera (or if someone was shooting it for them) - - - I was sneaking my artistic, emotion packed shots without drawing attention to myself.

This small selection from the night were captured with my no-too-obvious Olympus Pen E-PL5 with 14-42 kit lens. The setting was not overly bright and so required all photos to be shot at 6400 ISO at 1/30'th to 1/50'th second wide open.

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    14mm    f/3.5    1/50s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    14mm    f/3.5    1/80s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    14mm    f/3.5    1/100s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    15mm    f/3.6    1/40s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    14mm    f/3.5    1/80s    ISO 6400

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E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    14mm    f/3.5    1/40s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    26mm    f/4.5    1/20s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    14mm    f/3.5    1/100s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    42mm    f/5.6    1/40s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    35mm    f/5.2    1/125s    ISO 6400

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E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    37mm    f/5.3    1/60s    ISO 6400

E-PL5    OLYMPUS M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R    27mm    f/4.6    1/80s    ISO 6400

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