First Concert Photos

[fokker]

I took these over new year at a music festival I was at. Lots of opportunity for taking photos, except mostly I was more concerned with dancing and haviong a good time than taking photos!

Anyway, these 3 were taken on my 40d with 200mm f2.8L, C&C is welcomed.

#1

#2

#3

 

[fokker]

Awww 155 views and no comments?

 

[kajiki]

Awww 155 views and no comments?

well I'll try to help you. This is Canon glass, yes? It doesn't look too sharp to me. Did you focus on their eyes?

I can't see the vibrant colour that I was expecting......

pretty uninspiring. But I guess are too polite to say. Hence the 155/0

Can you pull some EXIF data about shutter speeds etc?

 

[gsgary]

Sorry these are not showing how good that lens is, not sure if it is shutter speed or focus i would probably say too slow on the shutter speed
This is one taken with that lens at ISO3200
http://gsgary.smugmug.com/photos/497396159_6CyXU-L.jpg

 

[kajiki]

exactly.

 

[fokker]

Fair comments - thanks for the honesty. I think partly the softness is because these are hosted on facebook, which probably sucks. Looking at them closer now they are a lot softer than I remember them looking. I will upload the originals to flickr when I get home from work and see if makes a difference.

Otherwise, I would say that it would be more focus than shutter speed as a possible contributor - I can't recall the exact settings but I know the second two were at f2.8 and it was daylight, so should have been upwards of 1/200 I would think (depending on ISO obviously).

 

[gsgary]

Fair comments - thanks for the honesty. I think partly the softness is because these are hosted on facebook, which probably sucks. Looking at them closer now they are a lot softer than I remember them looking. I will upload the originals to flickr when I get home from work and see if makes a difference.

Otherwise, I would say that it would be more focus than shutter speed as a possible contributor - I can't recall the exact settings but I know the second two were at f2.8 and it was daylight, so should have been upwards of 1/200 I would think (depending on ISO obviously).

Have a look and let us know what S/S is

 

[fokker]

Here is the exif data:

#1:
50mm (EF 50mm 1/8 II)
ISO 400
f/7.1
1/160


#2:
200mm (EF 200mm 2.8)
ISO 200
f/2.8
1/320


#3:
200mm (EF 200mm 2.8)
ISO 200
f/2.8
1/500

Looks like it is definitely not shutter speed that is the issue, and looking at the photos on my hard drive now, they don't look any sharper so I guess it was just my focusing that sucks. I can't remember, but I may have been manually focusing on some or all of these.