Small Club Concert (many pics)

[Manfr3d]

Hi there,

after taking a good portion whipping in "the whipping post" about
mics growing out of peoples bodies on my photos I still feel
comfortable to show some of the other shots from the concert
to you. It's a small Band from Barcelona, Spain. Their music was
100% in spanish so I couldn't quite understand what they were
singing about, but it was melodic and at times quite funky. Costo
Rico is the Band's name, if you wanna check them out. Anyway,
here are some pics for you to see (and hopefully comment on):

1.
http://www.florianbuetow.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15129&g2_serialNumber=2

2.
http://www.florianbuetow.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15234&g2_serialNumber=2

3.
http://www.florianbuetow.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15140&g2_serialNumber=2

4.
http://www.florianbuetow.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15220&g2_serialNumber=2

5.
http://www.florianbuetow.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15192&g2_serialNumber=2

6.
http://www.florianbuetow.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15212&g2_serialNumber=2

7.
http://www.florianbuetow.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15148&g2_serialNumber=2

8.
http://www.florianbuetow.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=15145&g2_serialNumber=2


Pfeww.. lots of images ;)

[Skippy]

Hi there,

after taking a good portion whipping in "the whipping post" about
mics growing out of peoples bodies on my photos I still feel
comfortable to show some of the other shots from the concert
to you. It's a small Band from Barcelona, Spain. Their music was
100% in spanish so I couldn't quite understand what they were
singing about, but it was melodic and at times quite funky. Costo
Rico is the Band's name, if you wanna check them out. Anyway,
here are some pics for you to see (and hopefully comment on):

Pfeww.. lots of images ;)

Hi there......... I can imagine it's not easy to shoot a band, with the lighting conditions, and people constantly moving, also trying to avoid the crowd as well.

You did really well, the band members show a lot of concentration on their faces, it's all good fun and good practice :clap

Thanks for sharing....... Skippy
.

[JCDoss]

All of these shots look pretty darn good to me! How do you expose them? Do you shoot manually? What kind of EV compensation do you use? Just curious. Thanks for sharing!

[david_h]

Pfeww.. lots of images ;)

Bloody good images too!
I love the colours - very nice indeed.

[Manfr3d]

All of these shots look pretty darn good to me! How do you expose them? Do you shoot manually? What kind of EV compensation do you use? Just curious. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your kind replies!

I shot this concert with a 10D and a Tamron 28-75mm/2.8. Usualy I shoot
in aperature priority mode at f2.8 and ISO 3200 in places as dark as this one.

Also, I put my camera to "multi-segment" metering and manualy select
the focus point. By doing this it was fairly easy to get a good exposure
because the camera takes a reading off the segment below my selected
focus point (faces, or clothing). Manual mode could be useful when the
light sayed constant, but in concerts it rarely does and by "swinging the
exposure compensation wheel" I can always adjust an exposure on the
fly because I already know off which point my camera takes the reading.

I didn't use exposure compensation for any of the shots above, but I
regulary check histograms to see if I need compensation (is anything blinking
or histogramm too far to the left...). This would normaly be within +1/3rd
or +2/3rd stop range. I always shoot RAW so that if sth. goes wrong I can
still adjust it within some limit without running into noise problems.

Duing the converstion from RAW to Jpeg I only change white balance until
skin tones "make sense" and adjust highlight detail to be lower 5%-10%
(rarely higher) and shadow details to be 10%-20% greater. Saturation is
not changed. This gives good color and adds a little punch to the image.

I hope that answers your questions.