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So I didn't get to do any riding or attend Ron's Fish Fry today. He always manages to schedule them when I am either working or have something else going on already. I am sure it is just a coincidence... 
Today, I had a Father-Daughter dance to attend with my two daughters. They participate in American Heritage Girls (similar to Girl Scouts). This was one of their events. Here are a few of the photos from the event. The lighting was kind of whacky. It was all fluorescent. So I had to play around with the white balance in LR to get the skin tones looking right. This is also the first batch of photos I've done since getting and installing the Spyder5 Pro monitor calibration system. So if they look off to you, like ALL of them, please let me know. I don't know who all the people are, but I'll name the ones I do know.This is Lilly, or "Lillybug" as we call her.
Robert "Boots" Knight, Lilly and Maddie (one of Sarah's best friends)
Beth was helping with the running of the event. This meant that Daniel had to attend with us. He was the only boy there. He's not old enough yet to appreciate that luck
Getting enough DOF for shots like this was HARD. I was running the flash. I wanted to keep the shutter speed relatively fast. The ISO was REALLY wanting to float high, like 10K and up. I usually like to keep it to 6400 max. The girls are a bit softer in this shot than I would have preferred. I should have moved and shot them side by side so they'd all be about the same distance from me so the DOF would not have been as critical.
Abigail. This kid is a hoot. I had fun joking around with her all evening.
My Rachel... a bit of a sweet tooth...
Hannah, Abigail's big sister
Chip Looney, a local custom bike builder, music shop owner, and pastor (and me and Rachel)
Sarah and me tearing up the dance floor
Lilly likes having her picture taken
Chip and Annaleise (his oldest daughter of three)
Rachel
After the "formal" pictures were done with a photographer (sister of one of the Dads), the kids got to do funny pics. Here's Abigail again.
Sarah and a friend whose name I have no clue how to spell or pronounce
A few dad's got in on the dressing up
That's all. It was fun doing pics because most of the girls love having their pictures taken. A few were a little shy at first, but once they saw the other girls having their pictures taken, they warmed up to me. It was a real challenge. I was constantly fighting the exposure because I wanted a fast enough shutter speed to keep the images blur free, but I also wanted some decent depth of field and I was often real close to the subjects when shooting, so that was tough. If I tried to shoot around 1/125 f/5.6 or so, then the ISO quickly started breaking 10000. In retrospect, I think I should have taken the SB-700 flash instead of just using the pop up on the body. That would have let me keep a relatively fast shutter and smaller aperture, darkening the background instead of worrying about using a shallow DOF to blue it, while still lighting up the close subjects. It just gets heavy hauling around the camera, big lens and full flash. the lady doing the "official" photos had a cool setup on her tripod. It mounted the flash on a bracket high (a foot or so) above the body. Then, there was a piece on the bracket that held the camera and allowed it to rotate back and forth between portrait and landscape modes without the flash moving. This worked with the camera on the tripod and while she was walking around shooting. She does mostly wedding photography and said it comes is REALLY handy!
I think I'll stick to working on making memories with them by taking them on rides with me 
This shot should be in the Tuesday edition of the Huntsville Times. Apparently, they decided to do a short blurb on our Father/Daughter Dance. The funny thing is that the last time I wore a tie was at a Father/Daughter banquet at our church about five years ago. Prior to that... 
