Roaming Around Church

When I'm not making blog posts with swear words in the title, or griping about schoolwork, or debating about if 24 is dumb, dumber or dumbest, I take pictures. A recent photo project I've been assigned is taking pictures of my church. (Assigned by my church, I should also add.) These photos may be used to help supplement a DVD project that is being worked on. (But ssshh! I won't spill any more info online... Who knows what kind of thieves want to copycat such ideas?)

But there's a problem with this... Taking pictures during the service. Now, I don't mind actually taking pictures during the service itself, that's okay for me. I'm more alert and aware when I'm moving around, anyways. (Plus? It's so much fun to do "behind-the-scenes" stuff like this.) The problem is this: lighting. I'm using a camera, not a videocamera. So I take still photos. And what's the most disruptive thing you could do with a camera? That's right, use a flash. It's church. It's worship. You do not use a flash all the time. (Plus, it'd show up on the videocamera, and it wouldn't look natural...) So I keep the flash off. But that raises a whole other question: how do you get good pictures without a flash? Take a look at this photo:

This is of our associate pastor talking about the Lord's Supper. It's a very interesting photo, although I myself am kind of looking more at what the people in the background are doing. (But I'm weird that way.) Anyways, even at this small size you can see that it's kind of grainy. It is very difficult to get a high-quality picture in mixed lighting. I'm considering bringing a tripod next Sunday, to see if that helps at all. We'll see if I remember that, though.

One fun thing about being the roaming photographer? You can let your inner child come out and take pictures of a empty lobby while the service is going on. To paraphrase miss Maggie, yes, I'm that cool.

The point of this post: I dunno. But hey, at least it wasn't about TV again!