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Nice pictures, especially for a first timer
Although IMO, shooting catwalk is a piece of cake nowadays, with the advanced AF, incredible high ISO options modern DSLR's and far more widely available and 'affordble' fast (long/longer) lenses nowadays.
Results basically only depend of the quality of the available stage lighting, which in this case obviously was well up to par
I remember well the anxiety, stress and sweat of my early catwalk shooting days in the early 80's as a debutant photographer/photography student, using a (obviously) manual focus 1.8/85mm FL lens (a, in its days quite extic 1970's lens which originally had cost twice as much as a film body of its age, but still much less the e.g. the first 2.8/80-200 Nikon zoom that in that period first, in a very limited number, hit the market) on a non-motorized Canon FTqL (with stop down light meter, good luck trying to, in a blacked out viewfinder, align the lightmeter needle with the 'correct exposure' indicator circle under the available light)
While shooting a 36 shot roll of ISO 64 Kodak EPY pushed one stop to 'no less' then ISO 125 (try to, basically only 'on the touch', very swiftly, since the show won't wait for you to catch up, swapping film rolls in the dark, without dropping the rolls, while feeding in the film correctly as not to run into the feared ' this roll seems to last forever, oh ***, it has not transported correctly' syndrom )
http://m1.i.pbase.com/g9/20/670620/2/164945161.9tbJ0nqc.jpg (Canon 1.8/85mm FL + Canon FTqL on Kodak EPY pushed ISO 125)
A world of difference with the 3 fps (no need to go faster) max ISO 6400 D3 and D800 continuous AF DSLR's with multi hundred shot memory cards, with 2.8/70-200 or 2/200 VR lenses I (gladly) use nowadays instead.
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