Chasing Jones/O Four What @ The One 06/06/07 *WARNING 56K*

[WMah]

Hey everyone, just finished going through all my images from my first shoot @ a live event (got 1% keepers if even). Anyways, I had a blast and it was quite a learning experience! C&C would be appreciated. Thx!

1)
http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/Chasing%20Jones%20060607/_MG_1227.jpg

2)
http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/Chasing%20Jones%20060607/_MG_1006.jpg

3)
http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/Chasing%20Jones%20060607/_MG_1001.jpg

4)
http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/Chasing%20Jones%20060607/_MG_1356.jpg

5)
http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/Chasing%20Jones%20060607/_MG_0987.jpg

6)
http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/Chasing%20Jones%20060607/_MG_0923.jpg

7)
http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/O%20Four%20What%20060607/_MG_0735.jpg

8)
http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/O%20Four%20What%20060607/_MG_0633.jpg

The rest can be found @ http://members.shaw.ca/wilsonmah/. Sorry I don't have a gallery set up so it's basically a file directory

[René Damkot]

All are a bit too high in contrast & #6 looks like a bit too much Noise reduction going on.
That being said: Some nice images. I like #1, 3, 4 and 6.

[WMah]

thanks for the comments, I must have gone a bit overboard on the contrast slider in adobe raw XD

[DwightMcCann]

Yup, I like #6 but unless she brought an MUA of great passion she looks a bit plastic ... but I like wimmen so it's OK with me! :-) Good job!

[livewire-photography.com]

gotta Run but 3 is awesome!

[WMah]

I reuploaded #6 without adding any pp for the skin and lowered the contrast a bit. Thanks for the advice guys

[René Damkot]

Very much better!

[WMah]

I'd like some opinions on one thing that crossed my mind while sorting through and processing the images. For live events in a low light environment, what is usually preferred... a properly exposed background showing the curtains and the light stands etc or a darkened background with only the performers adequately exposed? I noticed that my entire set pretty much had the same "look" consisting of just the performers exposed and minimal background details. I know that my aggressiveness with the contrast slider during pp contributed to this but even the original raw images didn't have the background that well exposed.

[René Damkot]

Whatever looks good.
I tend to add vignetting to loose a distracting BG...