Canon XTi = great onstage play pictures

For the 20 minutes we sat waiting to see my nephew in the school play, I tinkered with the settings on my camera, and took tons of practice shots. I knew better than to use it with that flash going off, so I was trying to find a setting that would take viable shots while the play was going on.

I already knew that even 1 flash burst wouldn't be good for the actors on stage, but my camera does 8 or so mini flashes, so it looks like a strobe light going off. No way was I going to do that to those kids.

So, I managed to turn the beep off, turn off the continuous shooting, and play around with practice shots enough to get decent pictures of the play. And I got some good ones of my nephew too. Wasn't easy, considering his role wasn't that long in the play... he walked in the door, the lights went out, there were gunshots, and when the lights came on, he was lying dead on the stage. LOL

Oh, and the director of the play came out before they started and asked for no flash photography. (The whole family turned and looked at me, annoyingly.) Thumbs up here. I'd shut mine off a while back. All that was left at that point was to get the test shots done.

The only thing indicating I was taking any pictures at all was that little whine that an SLR makes as the shots are taken. I also didn't take very many pictures, because I didn't want to disturb the people around me. I think I did a good job with that. Got no dirty looks from the people around me, anyway. LOL