I think that I'm starting to get a handle on the lighting at JJ's. For the most part, I expose for the red channel and let the blue and green fall where they may. When I do that, I can usually get a pretty clean black and white. Sometimes the color is such that if I bump the exposure, the red clips and the highlights show up as a bright yellow. A little tweaking with vibrance and clarity gives me something that looks like of like a 60's silk screen poster.
Last night I was experimenting with my flash. I don't have it quite nailed down, but the combination of flash and red stage lights gives kind of a nice warm tone to the shots that I rather like. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157624583214413/ This one is kind of cool because where the flash is shadowed but the stage lights aren't, it look like the mic is glowing in her hand: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4884104947/ The other thing that I was playing with was using long focal lengths to bring it in very close to the musicians and to minimize the background clutter. These were pretty much all shot with my 18-250 -- 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.
