BTW what diameters do you need, Larry? Cheers Ecke 2010/7/2 Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > > On Jul 2, 2010, at 8:39 AM, David Parsons wrote: > >> I'm wondering about the feeling that you need to 'correct' for the >> stage lights. No one expects the lighting to look natural at shows. > > I'm not trying to correct the colors. I want to try an experiment on the off > chance that it'll give me better B&W conversions. I actually don't expect it > to work, that's why I want to find some cheap filters to play with. There's > a lot to be said for listening to people who know more than you do, but to > really learn something, I've found that nothing beats going out and failing > miserably on my own. > >> Don't worry about blowing individual channels. You are not shooting >> under full spectrum conditions. If you are lucky, you get a spot on >> the lead or whomever is doing the solo, and let the rest fall where it >> will. > > No spot at this venue. This angle from behind the band shows the lights: > http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5514009&l=7112b7f225&id=653299672 > > There's a green light coming in from the side, on the right side of this > photo. > > >> >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Ecke's post about filter enablement tickled on of my neurons. >>> >>> One of the places that I tend to shoot bands has the stage lit with about 4 >>> orange and red lights, and two blue and one green. Occasionally this will >>> lead to a nice effect, but usually just needs to be converted to B&W. >>> Also, if I expose to not blow out the red channel, the blue and green >>> channels end up about three stops under exposed, leaving me with 75% of my >>> sensor sites way under. >>> >>> I've been thinking of trying to slap some blue filters on my camera the >>> next time that I shoot there, and realized that there's a good chance that >>> folks on this list might have some gathering dust in a drawer, from the >>> days when you needed to use a filter if you were shooting with daylight >>> film under tungsten lights. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Aloha Photographer Photoblog >> http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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