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Originally Posted by GirlsandBeer
I'll be participating in my first ride in Portland and will try to take pics while there is still light out! I'll be wearing tight, short undies. Any tips for taking? (I'm looking at you Pedro and Klondike). I'm 30, fairly good looking and not obese or hairy.
I plan to have an ok camera - hxxp://store.sony.com/cyber-shot-digital-camera-rx100-iii-zid27-DSCRX100M3/B/cat-27-catid-All-Cyber-shot-Cameras?_t=pfm%3Dcategory
I hear they hate photographers at the Portland ride, but I think I'll be ok since I'm a participant. Will it be better if I go completely naked in order to take pics or will bring a participant in underwear be enough?
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That camera has a top ISO of 25600, which means it should be able to take 1/60 second pictures (non-blurry), without a flash, in the kind of low light you have when the streetlights are half a block away. You should definitely not take my word for it, though. If you want to try flashless night photography, learn your settings and practice in the same conditions in advance (experience talking here
). Most subjects, like most other people, have no idea how far low-light sensors have come in the last 4 years, so they're not likely to take much notice of a camera pointed at them in darker places on the ride, if you're not pushing it too close to them and the flash never goes off.
Not to suggest you shouldn't do what all the others have said, but the extreme sensitivity of that camera means you have additional options.
Btw, I'd be remiss not to mention that using a higher ISO setting means your pictures look grainier and lose detail, so be wary of pushing it higher than necessary.