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Brazilians do a lot of things well but two of the best are samba and partying!  Last night we held the FIA World Endurance Championship Awards Ceremony at Casa Fasano in Sao Paulo and it was a celebration of the 2014 season that ended on Sunday. The speeches were kept to a minimum with several people given special awards on the night (news here).  This left more time for the party and one of the highlights of the evening were the samba dancers and the drummers.  The whole place rocked and there were plenty of people queuing up to have a dance with the beautiful samba dancers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

The 'Desi Braveheart' Dancers - image shot at 3200 ISO Last weekend we visited the Edinburgh Mela, an international music, dance and arts festival celebrating its 20th year.   There were three stages where musicians and dances from all over the world came to perform and while the stages were lit, the lighting was going to be a challenge for the X-T1 with the 55-200mm f3.5/4.8 telephoto that I was going to have to use to get some close up shots of the artists.  I did take the 35mm f1.4, which would've given me a 3.5 stop advantage over the f4.8 at the 200mm end of the zoom but I wasn't able to get close enough to the stage to use the shorter lens.   Of course the 55-200mm has Optical Image Stabilisation (OIS) but this only helps if the subject is static or slow moving.  I've handheld a shot of the Eiffel Tower at night using 1/8s with this lens and got a perfectly sharp image, but 1/8s is no good with dancers as they will appear blurred even with OIS enabled...