Earl Moore
Cast - Stealing Away, Livingstone College

Earl Moore
Individual shot of a cast member

I was honored to be asked to make photographs of the cast and rehearsal for the production of the play, “Stealing Away,” by the theater group at Livingstone College. I joined their rehearsal on Thursday evening and had great fun! I found I enjoy photographing actors — they’re natural performers, especially when it’s an all female cast. You don’t have to coax them to connect with the camera, you simply need to be ready to capture the moment they do.

I didn’t want to take them out of the moment with a flash, so I worked with low-level stage lighting — using my Nikon D700 at 3600-4000 ISO. I was able to shoot even at continuous low speeds with my 24-70mm f/2.8 lens keeping tight focus during the scenes. There was some noise at these higher ISO levels but it took only a few minutes to remove it in Lightroom/Photoshop.

Earl Moore
Cast and director

Part of this weekends was spent processing three sets of the photos — color, black and white and antique look. I’d promised them for Monday.

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Alan M. Collopy
13 years ago

Earl,

Yes, an honor for you, but for them also. Stunning photos, I love the color and details, and variety of shots. VERY well done Earl.

Alan

Martina Egli
13 years ago

Marvellous images, I love the joy and happiness you captured. The colours are wonderful and I particularly like the feel of your portrait shot, it transports me to a warm summers day in another time.

Ove
Ove
13 years ago

These images came out impressively good, although those high iso numbers. Sounds like great fun, photographing a theatre group. Really nice images, Earl.

Ken Bello
13 years ago

A nice set of photos, Earl. Stage actors have a lot of presence for photo ops and you took good advantage of it.

Anita Jesse
13 years ago

Those high ISO’s certainly didn’t hold you back. I hope this cast realizes how fortunate they were to have you there with your camera. Fine stills for publicity.

Monte Stevens
13 years ago

Congratulations, my friend, and another job well done. It seems as though you are getting more opportunities for shooting projects, people are liking the work you do.