Light Staff: ImaKoKode

[stasber]

This guy makes his own props - and knows pretty well how to use them! This was in a theatre, so he used light staffs, outside he'd be playing with fire (don't try this at home kids! ;) ).

Taken during the show of the Circus Festival Ireland.

http://www.pbase.com/stasber/image/93103978.jpg

[Burrelly]

A litte dark and the contrast seems a little off.

What was your setup?

[stasber]

What do you mean by 'off', and 'setup'?

Thanks.

[Burrelly]

The contrast is just not quite right. If you look at the top of the staff you can see rings of light. That is caused by the contrast being a little high.

By setup I mean, What camerea, lens and settings.

[stasber]

Thanks for the advice on contrast, I don't know what needed attention. I know what you're talking about and had noticed it myself. That might be partly due to recovering highlights too, I wonder, as I played about with it for a while but this is the best I could muster at the time (LR user). [edit: it's also 80% quality jpg - looked a lot worse at 60%, my usual post] You reckon bring down the contrast?

Equipment wise it's a 40D, 24-70 f/2.8 L
Settings ISO 800 at f/2.8, 1/50sec and 70mm.
(EXIF is present in the posted image)

I think this image has some potential, feedback on trying to bring it out would be welcome.

I might give it a go in DPP too, as I've never been able to emulate the same sharpness/clarity in LR, but then highlights handling is crap.