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gcobb
11th of February 2007 (Sun), 00:33
Newby's in Memphis, my friends played. Charlie went into a solo that lasted 10 minutes or so. I've never seen him play so hard. But he did Stranglehold too (Ted Nugent for the musically impaired) and was impressive.

Custom white balance
Slight sharpening
Noise Reduction

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http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Schproda/Gigs/Taco/Other/1031a.jpg
2
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Schproda/Gigs/Taco/Other/1028a.jpg
3
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Schproda/Gigs/Taco/Other/1034a.jpg
johnstoy
11th of February 2007 (Sun), 06:50
This is a very nice sequence...The colors accentuate the grays very nicely...

I worked quite a bit on the reds and grays in post processing last week... and I found that if you can adjust the gray zones of the shadows, it gives the pic a lot more "pop".
gcobb
11th of February 2007 (Sun), 10:54
Good deal, thanks for the compliment.
DwightMcCann
11th of February 2007 (Sun), 14:00
One man band? I agree with John about the coloring. And your buddy plays in sweats with all those arm braces ... how unusual! :-)
CanonXTuser
11th of February 2007 (Sun), 14:45
I agree with John and Dwight ... take a moment and think of the cosmic implications of that and be very afraid my friend, be very afraid :)

#3 is sensational. Poster shot there. Just slightly soft/hazy.
DwightMcCann
11th of February 2007 (Sun), 15:22
I agree with John and Dwight ... take a moment and think of the cosmic implications of that and be very afraid my friend, be very afraid :)

Man, it even looks like the Rapture outside today!
gcobb
11th of February 2007 (Sun), 23:13
I tried getting the others. The blue Gels up front ruin more images I do there next to movement. Two of them are out too so where the stage right person is winds up being too dark. I don't know what to tell you about the armband though!
blackshadow
12th of February 2007 (Mon), 00:48
I don't know what to tell you about the armband though!

He stole it from a tennis player!

Nice set of shots.
livewire-photography.com
12th of February 2007 (Mon), 11:44
I think these are good, just dont have much of a Pop (As John Said) to them, but have captured some energy, but is there any other shots of the rest of the band? any at all?
gcobb
12th of February 2007 (Mon), 20:54
I'll have to look. I'm not fond of the blue gels they have up front. They're so harsh that you can't do much with correcting them. I'll look and see if anything else is worth of putting up.
gcobb
12th of February 2007 (Mon), 21:26
Ooookay.

Taco is Taco when he's singing. Not a lot of variety there!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Schproda/Gigs/Taco/Other/0963a.jpg

But I fixed the blue in this one!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y197/Schproda/Gigs/Taco/Other/0951a.jpg
René Damkot
13th of February 2007 (Tue), 05:28
If the front gels are blue, you did quite a bit of WB-ing. Shot RAW? If so, IMO a bit more pleasing skin tone should be possible. You could do two conversions: One for pleasing skin tone, one for nice BG colors...
If you shot jpg, you've just found a reason to shoot RAW ;)

Apart from the skin tones and the clipping in the last two: Nice images.
thelightofsound
13th of February 2007 (Tue), 09:38
i think you did good for that room. newby's is hard. was jason running sound/lights? i would always hit him up to give me a little extra light for a song or two. he never had a problem with it. at least it wasn't on the bar side ;)
i rene made great points. in fact, i would like to hear more about how to do two conversions.
gcobb
13th of February 2007 (Tue), 22:52
Yeah Jason was there. He's still doing FOH and lights. My first time in there I asked him to hook me up and he gave them all they had. I'll try more CWB up front next time. Although I shot raw, it's pretty obvious I didn't do too good on getting the blue out. Those cans are pretty hot.
René Damkot
14th of February 2007 (Wed), 05:07
in fact, i would like to hear more about how to do two conversions.
Quite simple really: You do two conversions with a different WB (and/or exposure)

A Quicktime tutorial about blending two different exposures from one RAW: click (http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/videos/BlendedExposures.mov)

You can off course also use the airbrush to mask the two images....
thelightofsound
14th of February 2007 (Wed), 11:10
@ greg - i hear ya. even with those cans full blast, it's not good light. but at least it's not the young ave deli ;)

@ rené - well first of all i just figured out how to type your name correctly on my mac, and second of all YOU ROCK! i've said this to you before, and i'll say it again: i take more useful information from you than anyone else on this forum http://panicfreaks.org/images/emoticons/cheers.gif