Rocky Horror Picture Show @ Austin, TX 12/1/07

[Riff Raff]

It's been a few months since I've posted photos here. I shoot The Rocky Horror Picture Show most every weekend, so I normally just share them with the local cast and such. I've been enjoying some better results lately though I think. At this particular show I was primarily playing with the 50mm f/1.4 I got last month, so all photos except one were with that lens. At any rate, the full gallery is online at http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/ (http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/index.php) if you're interested. C&C is welcome (I have an opportunity to hopefully improve every weekend usually!).

P.S. My wife was performing as Janet Weiss this particular evening.

#1
http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/content/bin/images/large/IMG_1475.jpg
ISO 800 | 50 mm | 1/80 sec at f / 2.0

#2
http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/content/bin/images/large/IMG_1647.jpg
ISO 800 | 50 mm | 1/125 sec at f / 2.0

#3
http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/content/bin/images/large/IMG_1658.jpg
ISO 800 | 50 mm | 1/125 sec at f / 2.0

#4
http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/content/bin/images/large/IMG_1838.jpg
ISO 800 | 50 mm | 1/125 sec at f / 2.0

#5
http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/content/bin/images/large/IMG_1897.jpg
ISO 800 | 50 mm | 1/100 sec at f / 2.0

#6
http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/content/bin/images/large/IMG_1943.jpg
ISO 800 | 85 mm | 1/100 sec at f / 1.8

#7
http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/content/bin/images/large/IMG_2063.jpg
ISO 800 | 50 mm | 1/125 sec at f / 1.8

#8
http://www.austinrocky.org/photos/12012007/content/bin/images/large/IMG_2073.jpg
ISO 800 | 50 mm | 1/100 sec at f / 1.8

[ironbelle]

The cast should be pretty happy with these. I like the colors.

[alan_potter]

Beautiful bright colours - and amazingly sharp, given that killer depth of field you have to play with!

Well done!

regards,
/alan

[Burrelly]

Love the DOF. Good job

[Riff Raff]

I like the colors.
...
Beautiful bright colours

I must confess that Lightroom has a lot to do with that. :oops: It's part of my S.O.P. now for Rocky Horror photos that they get develop settings of +25 Clarity and +40 Vibrance on import. The Vibrance bump seems to work really well for indoor performance photos, particularly with all the costumes and such.

I think my main open-ended question on post-processing now is white balance. I make occasional white balance adjustments in Lightroom now when photos just look entirely "wrong", and sometimes if I have a couple of photos with similar lighting I'll use the white balance setting from the one I like more and copy it to the other one. But the theatre lighting is so intensely variable (four incandescent floodlights with different colored bulbs up front plus a spotlight with gels) that for the most part I generally just leave it on auto white balance and hope for the best.

[René Damkot]

Good set. Better then the previous time IIRC.