The Job from HELL

[Christie Photo]

...i am worried about wb and colors in the post work and wondering how well it will all turn out.

I hear black and white is trendy. lmao: Sorry... couldn't resist.)

-Pete

 

[Margie28]

Hi,

I take photos at events and I can imagine all that you've been through.

It is always a challenge and each event is different, that's why prepairing and taking all the needed equipment with you, is so important.

You got a wonderful chance to provide event services.

I always have to do lot of editing, specially if there was hardly lightsource during the event, but each event was an awesome learning experience.

Margie

 

[That One Guy]

Put a few gel strips in the bag and save you a ton of work on the WB. I keep em in the bottom of the bag along with a Big Metz 60ct-4 in the truck. Worst case is break out the metz and overpower the weird mixed lighting by 2 stops.

hmmm good idea.....thanks

 

[That One Guy]

I hear black and white is trendy. lmao: Sorry... couldn't resist.)

-Pete

ha ha

 

[That One Guy]

Hi,

I take photos at events and I can imagine all that you've been through.

It is always a challenge and each event is different, that's why prepairing and taking all the needed equipment with you, is so important.

You got a wonderful chance to provide event services.

I always have to do lot of editing, specially if there was hardly lightsource during the event, but each event was an awesome learning experience.

Margie

thanks

 

[hedonia]

In future, there are two easy easy things you can do to make your pp much easier. First, use gels (as suggested by someone else). You can even get away with just packing two: green to match florescent and orange to match tungsten. Make your life a lot easier. Second, did you shoot RAW? When you have conflicting light temps, its still a huge pain to correct WB, but with RAW you can change it a lot easier. I always shoot RAW + JPEG when I do events, so that I can save time if the JPEG is right on, and have the RAW in case any major tweaking is necessary.

For this particular event, since you gave out business cards for people to view the photos, be sure to post your very best work. If you took 100 pictures, and 50 are meh but acceptable, and 15 are amazing, I would say just post the amazing 15. Displaying work to strangers unfortunately seems to have the bad apple effect: one meh shot in a sea of great ones brings the final impression down.

If you end up having major problems with the post, I'd say post a few shots in the PP forum. You'd be surprised how much things can be improved. And, like Christie said, there's always Black and White! =)

 

[Village Idiot]

Or you could just overpower the ambient.