Random Penetrations

[Cameragirl58]

Yep that's their name:lol:
I took some photos a couple of nights ago of this local band,the lighting while colourful and fairly bright, flashed around constantly and also reflected back towards me at times from the mirrored background, therefore making it difficult to keep up a nice reasonable shutter speed.
The images have quite a bit of noise(that i've tried to get rid of) but what I would like to know is, do you think I would have been better to have used spot metering instead of evaluative as the lighting in the background was tending to be fairly bright ?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/chrispuk/Random%20Penetrations/IMG_4276Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/chrispuk/Random%20Penetrations/IMG_4271Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/chrispuk/Random%20Penetrations/IMG_4252Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/chrispuk/Random%20Penetrations/IMG_4243Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/chrispuk/Random%20Penetrations/IMG_4240Medium.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/chrispuk/Random%20Penetrations/IMG_4233Medium.jpg

[cdifoto]

Well the name certainly got my attention. :lol: Being posted by Cameragirl58 didn't hurt. ;)

As far as metering goes, I woulda spot metered their faces and pretty much left it there. But I'm no gig shooter either.

[René Damkot]

With the exception of #3 and 4, the spot meter would be too small to cover the face, so would be pretty useless. I'ld try Evaluative metering and EC...
Some images look like they were really pulled up during Raw conversion. That would account for excessive noise...
Nice drummer shot!

[kmb]

Some images look like they were really pulled up during Raw conversion. That would account for excessive noise...

They're also way too much compressed.

The first two are actually quite interesting because of the "extreme" background clutter :). I'd do some adjustments, though (not really sure excatly what, I'd know if I had the RAW-file)

[Cameragirl58]

Rene -thanks for the advice, I did use evaluative on all of them and just wondered if I could have used something else to compensate for the wild fluctuations in the lighting.
Your right about the pulling up during RAW conversion - some of them were pretty dark and I had to do quite a bit to try and get something useable out of them - which didn't help with the noise factor one bit :(

Kmb...You right about the compression - I don't think they've transfered very well from Photobucket - which has obviously compressed them too much.

Thank you both for your imput...I'll keep practicing...hopefully they'll play at this venue again and that will give me the chance to try some more variations to see if I can improve on them:)

[Atheomerase]

I also noticed that for being such a well-lit gig, there is quite a bit of noise and compressed. The photobucket transfer could account for some of that.

It usually takes me a couple shows at a venue to get a good read on the venue. Sometimes though, they just love to change up their lighting each show to mess with me, i swear!