Comments on: Common @ the Pageant — 2007.09.19 http://www.ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/ Music Photography, band portraits and promos from professional music photographer Todd Owyoung Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:32:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Todd http://www.ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/#comment-283 Todd Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:12:58 +0000 http://ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/#comment-283 Arthur, thanks for checking out my work, glad you enjoy it. I always use manual exposure, usually with evaluative metering (Matrix) and establish exposure once the light stabilizes during the first song. Since there were two spotlights tracking Common, exposure was very consistent throughout the first three songs, and I only changed ISO and shutter speed to get a little more motion-stopping power at times. These particular images are just from the basic JPGs written in-camera along with the RAW. Just a little curve was added to bring out the midtones, nothing tricky, and then they were resized and saved for web. Here, the abundant light is doing most of the work, and in general, I don't like to heavily alter my images. Let me know if you have any questions, and good luck with concert photography. Arthur, thanks for checking out my work, glad you enjoy it. I always use manual exposure, usually with evaluative metering (Matrix) and establish exposure once the light stabilizes during the first song.

Since there were two spotlights tracking Common, exposure was very consistent throughout the first three songs, and I only changed ISO and shutter speed to get a little more motion-stopping power at times.

These particular images are just from the basic JPGs written in-camera along with the RAW. Just a little curve was added to bring out the midtones, nothing tricky, and then they were resized and saved for web. Here, the abundant light is doing most of the work, and in general, I don’t like to heavily alter my images.

Let me know if you have any questions, and good luck with concert photography.

]]> By: Arthur http://www.ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/#comment-275 Arthur Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:50:58 +0000 http://ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/#comment-275 Inspiring work. I am just getting into concert photography and was wondering if these shots were spot metered & if so what kind of EV compensation did you use? Also are these photoshop'ed? I can't figure out how you got these shots to look so slick Inspiring work. I am just getting into concert photography and was wondering if these shots were spot metered & if so what kind of EV compensation did you use? Also are these photoshop’ed? I can’t figure out how you got these shots to look so slick

]]> By: Todd http://www.ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/#comment-234 Todd Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:50:00 +0000 http://ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/#comment-234 Thanks, Chris. Common's constant motion made it a challenging performance to photograph, but coming out of the show I knew the shoot would render some compelling shots. Thanks, Chris. Common’s constant motion made it a challenging performance to photograph, but coming out of the show I knew the shoot would render some compelling shots.

]]> By: Chris http://www.ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/#comment-231 Chris Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:53:21 +0000 http://ishootshows.com/2007/09/20/common-the-pageant-20070919/#comment-231 Really nicely done. Really nicely done.

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