A VERY OLD event report.. But less than one year old. (^_^;

 Event      Otasuke Girl DVD event
 Location   Yuigahama Beach
 Date       2003.08.17
 Time       afternoon
 Cost       free
 Guests     i-Chips
            Kurita Riko
            Akiyama Rina

There was a promotion event for the Otasuke Girl DVD on the beach
at Yuigahama Beach (in Kanagawa).
It was free and open for anyone, but since the weather was bad
(cloudy/raining and not so warm), the beach itself was pretty deserted.
Usually at this time, the beach would be so packed that you couldn't move..

The event flowed as follows.

 - talk by Kurita Riko, Akiyama Rina, Kurasawa Kaoru
 - songs by i-chips (Shintani Sayaka, Kurasawa Kaoru, Iwasa Mariko)
 - final talk by Kurita Riko, Akiyama Rina, Kurasawa Kaoru

Luckily the weather held up during the event.
It started raining after the event ended.

There was a sign saying no pics allowed, but they allowed pics.
Maybe because there was hardly any crowd..

photo notes
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I took 410 pictures with my 10D, with only 205 of them worth keeping.
Since I didn't want to bring my good lenses to the beach, I only brought
my 300mm F4L and 28-105mm F3.5-4.5 lenses.  Also since I wasn't 100% sure
that they allowed pictures, I didn't bring my monopod..  Big mistake.

Since I was using the flash, the 10D could only synch at 1/200.
So the shutter speed was too slow for the 300mm lens (which becomes the
equivalent of 480mm with the 10D).  There were MANY blurred shots. (;_;)

I had forgotten how to turn the flash into FP (high speed synchro) mode.
After getting home and reading the manual, I figured it out.
Next time, I should be able to use shutter speeds above 1/200..

My photo breakdown per girl was as follows.

 Shintani Sayaka     |  80
 Kurita Riko         |  50
 Kurasawa Kaoru      |  47
 Akiyama Rina        |  13
 Iwasa Mariko        |  11
 emcee               |   4

Pics at http://photos.usagi.org/sayaka/20030817/

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Hitoshi Doi
http://www.usagi.org/doi/                                    doi@usagi.org