Jekyll & Hyde The Musical

[hania]

My daughter was in this Youth Theatre production in September & I was allowed to do the Dress Rehersal Photos.


30D + 17-55 IS 2.8

I have albums of the full dress rehersal and also photos of the sets - taken from the back of the stalls during a running production with the above lens, tripod and cable release, at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/hania00

I'm attaching 8 - hope not too many

[hania]

and another 2

[hania]

and 2 more

[hania]

and the final 2.

Hope you like them - they are brilliant memories for me and my daughter.

[bmoguy]

They look good, nice set. The 3rd & 7th one look like they could be cropped a little tighter, but that's a personal call. You are right, those will make for some great memories.

[johnstoy]

Hi Hania,

You can post a lot more photos (eight) by using a free, third party picture storage service...

I use;

http://photobucket.com

You'll just download individual pictures to photobucket in a 800x600 size...and when needed for posting, you'll just copy the URL of the particular picture, into this Forum's "Post Message window"...it's that simple....

By the way, I posted a response in your thread Krakow - incredible light

It's in the Travel and Landscape Section...

Enjoy.

[hania]

thanks for the info - very useful.
by the way , to resize the photos I change image size in CS2 and then save as medium file as jpeg.
There must be a more efficient way of doing it - I keep having to check that they are not too large.
should I be using 'save for web' ?

[johnstoy]

thanks for the info - very useful.
by the way , to resize the photos I change image size in CS2 and then save as medium file as jpeg.
There must be a more efficient way of doing it - I keep having to check that they are not too large.
should I be using 'save for web' ?

Save for web in CS2 will reduce the pic size...however it's still best to export them individually to a third party service...you'll find that a thread is limited to the number of "attachments"...Don't attach pictures...

Copy and paste the URL's from a free third party storage service.

You'll be able to post eight of them right on the first post.

Also, after you paste the URL's into the Posting Message Box, try to space each URL to it's own line and then individually number them, for our reference, so we can talk about them....

Now, About these pics.
They are real good...you certainly capture the drama at this show..

[alan_potter]

Excellent pictures. What did you do for colour balancing - did you shoot them as RAW and then reset them manually, or are they JPG/tungstone, or something else?

I ask because it works very well!

regards,
/alan

[René Damkot]

I'd not use 'save for web', it strips out the exif...
That being said: Some nice images. Good timing and framing. Not too crisp though. Could be the compression, could be they need some sharpening, could be they just are soft ;)
Which is it?

[hania]

Excellent pictures. What did you do for colour balancing - did you shoot them as RAW and then reset them manually, or are they JPG/tungstone, or something else?

I ask because it works very well!

regards,
/alan

yes, shot in raw and reset white balance manually.
I used Raw Shooter premium.
Manual on camera: all at f2.8
5510-01 : 1600, 1/80
5540-01 : 1000, 1/25
5573-01 : 1000, 1/40
5590-01 : 1000, 1/30
5598-01 : 1000, 1/80
5607-01 : 1000, 1/20
5615-01 : 1600, 1/80
5618-01 : 800, 1/60

[hania]

I'd not use 'save for web', it strips out the exif...
That being said: Some nice images. Good timing and framing. Not too crisp though. Could be the compression, could be they need some sharpening, could be they just are soft ;)
Which is it?

Not sure really - the lighting was pretty low and I just kept shooting while the dress rehersal was running. They were just working out the lighting for some scenes - shame I couldn't shoot a running performance - but as these were taken from just behind the orchestra pit, I dont think I would have been very welcome!
I hadn't seen any previous rehersals, so had no idea what was coming next, but am reasonably happy with the results.

Can you suggest how I could improve the sharpening - I did let the camera autofocus (centre point only); and I used spot metering on the faces as black on black is tricky.


The sets photos I took (picasaweb) were needed as the company usually sell the sets after the show, and this way, they could show prospective purchasers how they looked.

Have applied sharpening (unsharp mask)

[René Damkot]

For sahrpening for web, I use Manyk SRS. (http://news.deviantart.com/article/20250/) (They ought to be paying me for premoting it so much ;))

Looked at the images agian, and I see a blue-greenish cast on #1 (most noticable) and the last one (slightly, in the 2nd row of people). I'd try to remove that.

[hania]

For sahrpening for web, I use Manyk SRS. (http://news.deviantart.com/article/20250/) (They ought to be paying me for premoting it so much ;))

Looked at the images agian, and I see a blue-greenish cast on #1 (most noticable) and the last one (slightly, in the 2nd row of people). I'd try to remove that.

Looking at #1 - they were still playing with the lighting - think it was different in actual performance - I do rather like it though - gives quite a dark, moody feel .

Many thanks, have downloaded iManyk & now I have to find some time to play with it!