I agree that the shot I posted had all the info. Some of the others though were underexposed by nearly a full stop, shadow detail was little more than noise. The high ISO made it all the worse. I tend to think the horrible lighting played a part in the exposure error. In some of the shots I noticed a sodium light was 'just' in the top of the frame, DOH!
One thing I would have had the opportunity to do was set a custom WB. It wouldn't have compensated for the great variation in color temp of the different light sources but I knew about where Emmy was going to be standing and could have set it for there. Should have helped with the awful green cast in that section and made my PS work a lot easier. The rear of the stage would have been very red but that might have been OK. Being able to preset white balance is one of the "digital thingies" I'm not used to yet. I realise this can be done in conversion but I'd like to be able to do better 'in camera' for those times when I need to shoot JPG for write speed and card capacity. A somewhat longer lens would have helped a lot in isolating the area of interest too. Would certainly have helped the meter out. Next time out the ATX 100-300/4 goes along. Would haved loved the 300/2.8 but it's just a bit too intimidating. (and heavy!) ;-) Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 5:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Speaking of exposure.... > > > On 22 May 2005 at 14:08, Mark Cassino wrote: > > > I don't know why the camera underexposes under these > circumstances - but it pays > > to check the histogram when starting and making adjustments. > > If the camera is working well an image shot in these > circumstances without > compensation will look dark but will have a good deal of > highlight information > intact. I used to bias my exposures to make them "look" correct before I > started using PCR but now don't, I appreciate the extra highlight > detail that > the metering bias preserves. > > Cheers, > > > Rob Studdert > HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 >
