Thank you for the kind words John. But I can't really take much credit for the colour balance. You can't compare these shots with your own directly. This is at an outdoor stage, with mixed light. All shots displayed here, except imgp2939.jpg, are before sunset, with a tiny bit of daylight.
Tim Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian.) Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) -----Original Message----- From: John Forbes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7. august 2005 23:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Malakoff Rockfestival I think you've done very well, and without using grainy b&w!. My own attempts at shooting a rock musician friend weren't nearly as successful. I find it very hard to get good colour balance, but you have succeeded. John On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:00:18 +0100, Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a link to give you a hint of what I've done during my weekend. > > http://malakoff.no/index.php?sid=75&cmd=1&aid=35 > > It is a two days event with 16 Norwegian bands. I joined at day two. We > where a team of three photographers, shooting wild. We shot jpg, and > loaded > them directly into a laptop. No time for tweaking. Even though I had > trouble > with my back/leg (sciatica trouble, Codeine kept me going) it was great > fun. > > > The selection is made by a web man. The pictures with file name imgp are > mine. When writing this post mine is the 18 pictures at bottom of page. > Most > of my pictures he has selected is pretty mediocre. I hope the web man > will > select some other pictures, he has left out my best shots. > > Despite of this I do submit the link, as a comment to the threads on > stage > shooting. All pictures are shot handheld, most of them using a monopod. > The > monopod is half ejected, placed standing in lens holder placed in my > belt. > This is pretty stable, but allows me to move fast in crowds. Most of the > close-ups are shot with my "new" VS1 70-210, mostly manual focus, but my > 1,7x AF converter also was handy. The rest is with the fast normal zooms > from Sigma/Tamron, mostly using AF (rock musicians at large stages tend > to > move fast and unpredictable). > > Comments? > > Tim > Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian.) > > Never underestimate the power of stupidity in large crowds > (Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some other clever guy) > > > > > > > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
