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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Vol. 1 No. 61
Took an opportunity the other night to catch a friend's band playing out at Don Hills on Greenwich Street in the Village. With a couple of cameras in hand, I took to capturing my experiences that evening.
When I'm shooting live bands, I never use flash. I try and use fast glass (lenses with a wide maximum aperture). One of my favorites is the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens. A super fast lens well suited to light low environments. Even with a fast lens, you will still need to shoot at high ISO settings usually above 800 and sometimes as high as 3200.
Since the scene is never evenly lit, I always put my camera into spot metering mode so I can measure exposure across a small area of the subject. If you wind up using matrix metering mode (or evaluative mode on canons), you'll run the risk of overexposure. Since the area around and behind the stage are so dark, the camera will attempt to compensate and bump up the exposure. This will blow-out the highlights in your image.
Don't struggle with color casts in your post production. A stage show is usually lit by various strobes of different colors firing to the beat of the music for effect. Let you images reflect what you saw. If the color gets objectionable, you can always convert your images to black and white.
And, I always photograph in the camera's raw format so I have more control over the image after it has been captured. Jpeg format uses what is known as lossy compresion to keep file sizes smaller. Basically, this results in the camera throwing image data away. Raw is uncompressed, or can utilize lossless compression. Raw format also allows you to change your white balance after the shot has been captured.
View more images in my Button Down Runner flickr set.
To find out more about the band, visit them at ButtonDownRunner.com
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1 comments:
Good stuff! Was a fun night out. Nice array of images.
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