After utilizing the Busy Bee theme by Woothemes for the previous design and being content about its performance, options and support, I decided to stick with Woothemes and opt for their slicker Headlines-theme, enabling me to provide much more content to our users thanks to a secondary menu.

The result came out quite nice and will be fine-tuned in early september, when the website’s content will be made up to par with current affairs.

All photographs were taken using nothing but ambient lighting (no flash) using a Canon 450D outfitted with a 50mm f/1,8 lens. In retrospect, shooting with no flash in a badly lit environment with dynamic lighting conditions certainly wasn’t the easiest task, as I was more or les forced to open my aperture way up, resulting in high depth of field and frankly some strange out-of-focus shots. Lack of flash also meant having to use slow shutter times, which in turn resulted in motion blur.

Either way, I learned a lot and I’m definitely glad I tried to jump right into party photography instead of shooting easier events first. An adventure in photography unfolds, to be continued for sure!