first c&c lots of photos

brownieapple · Jan 23, 2011

this is my first c&c ever and my first time taking pictures at a music venue. really this is my first time for everything including PP in Lightroom. i think i am finally ready for the beating you guys give but it will help me shoot better in the end. so just crush me please. [oh boy

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3bayjunkie · Jan 23, 2011

they are kind of dark. i dunno if it mmight be the lighting on the set. but other than that you could probably crop all of them a little closer

brownieapple · Jan 23, 2011

thanks! anyone else?

FranDaMan · Jan 23, 2011

Looks like you used the popup flash on the first few.
Nothing better to ruin your shots than a popup flash in a dark venue

mikelmartin · Jan 23, 2011

Iam no pro... But making it into a tighter shot would make nicer and I think the flash is too strong you should try using a flash diffuser and bouncing it at the ceiling for a more natural look.

Again this are what I see don't take me too seriously coz I am no expert.

Thanks,
Mikel Martin

mikelmartin · Jan 23, 2011

#9 is cool ...

brownieapple · Jan 24, 2011

FranDaMan said:
Looks like you used the popup flash on the first few.
Nothing better to ruin your shots than a popup flash in a dark venue

yeah i was pretty bummed when i had to use it.

mikelmartin said:
Iam no pro... But making it into a tighter shot would make nicer and I think the flash is too strong you should try using a flash diffuser and bouncing it at the ceiling for a more natural look.

Again this are what I see don't take me too seriously coz I am no expert.

Thanks,
Mikel Martin

yeah i am going to try to re-crop the pictures tomorrow or the day after and see how they look. i'm looking into getting either the 430ex ii or the 580ex ii soon so that will take care of that until then i guess i'm s.o.l.

brownieapple · Jan 24, 2011

Wanted to resurrect this from the depths and see if there were any other comments.

Ryan L · Jan 24, 2011

Are you at least shooting in RAW?

Marc-Etienne · Jan 24, 2011

#2 looks greenish to me so as #5 but much less. My monitor is not calibrated, but all the other seems true, so I'm guessing they really are greenish. That kind of photography is hard! Lighting sucks and guessing by the face of the singers in #8 and #9, it's probably pretty hard not to get pushed around! Hope you didn't get swallowed in the pit!

#1 is probably your best one. Outside that reflection on the forehead, the lighting is by far the best.
Good luck!

brownieapple · Jan 24, 2011

Ryan L said:
Are you at least shooting in RAW?

I shot a few in raw. But due to the small memory size of my memory card I had to shoot in jpeg.

. If I was just shooting one of the bands there I would have shot RAW

brownieapple · Jan 24, 2011

Marc-Etienne said:
#2 looks greenish to me so as #5 but much less. My monitor is not calibrated, but all the other seems true, so I'm guessing they really are greenish. That kind of photography is hard! Lighting sucks and guessing by the face of the singers in #8 and #9, it's probably pretty hard not to get pushed around! Hope you didn't get swallowed in the pit! #1 is probably your best one. Outside that reflection on the forehead, the lighting is by far the best.
Good luck!

Some of them I was trying out some different processing schemes so the green was desired to an extent. Might have exceeded what I wanted.

Yeah it was rough in there but nothing I'm not used to. I wish I got on stage and snapped some pics of the pit. It was pretty crazy out there