On 22 May 2005 at 18:27, Don Sanderson wrote: > 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!
Even a small bright area in the scene can bias the metering, you need to beware. When I'm shooting concerts/stage I tend to shoot in manual mode, then I more immune to specular reflections and direct lighting. > 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. The WB setting is only a flag, to set it you would either have had to use a pre- set or manual WB in conjunction with a white reference card. Since the lighting was mixed the results would never have been perfect in any case. However WB can as easily be adjusted in post processing. If using PCR grab the little dropper tool in the top left menu and click on a white/gray area (such as white shirt) until you have a WB that looks best balanced for the image. 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
