A few weeks back my son, Evan, turned 9. To celebrate we hosted a group of his friends at the Times Square entertainment complex in katy. After an hour of bowling they got to play midway games then a session of Laser Tag.
Since my earliest visits to this complex I've been wondering what it would be like to take photos in the black-lit arena. Obviously it's dark inside and a flash would kill the atmosphere. The image above was recorded on a canon eos 5d mark ii, with a Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens. Set on manual, I used a shutter speed of 1/30 s, an aperture of f4.0 and an ISO of 6400 with white balance set to Auto. In Camera Raw I increased the exposure to 1.25 and tweaked the clarity and vibrance. But perhaps the biggest benefit was the new Noise Reduction algorithm that ships with Camera Raw 6.0 in Adobe photoshop CS5.
Next time we go back I plan on taking a Speedlight and some light shaping tools with me to figure out how to illuminate the combatants without destroying the overall atmosphere.
