The Lurking Corpses - Fort Wayne, IN - 11/1/08

[bacchanal]

What can I say...it's the Lurking Corpses from Fort Wayne, IN...

hope you aren't offended by noise.

1.
http://www.photos.fahrenheit128.com/img/v4/p990166780-4.jpg

2.
http://www.photos.fahrenheit128.com/img/v4/p903908781-5.jpg

3.
http://www.photos.fahrenheit128.com/img/v4/p653833090-5.jpg

4.
http://www.photos.fahrenheit128.com/img/v4/p929529716-4.jpg

5.
http://www.photos.fahrenheit128.com/img/v4/p782759151-4.jpg

6.
http://www.photos.fahrenheit128.com/img/v4/p785992001-5.jpg

7.
http://www.photos.fahrenheit128.com/img/v4/p596373683-5.jpg

8.
http://www.photos.fahrenheit128.com/img/v4/p599228396-4.jpg

[amareica]

Surely you jest? =] The noise works PERFECTLY with these shots, love it. 1,4, and 8 are my faves but..they're all pretty creepy...and that name is no ray of sunshine either haha. Are they a local band or am I just falling behind on my corpses?

[René Damkot]

I like #4 and 7.

What noise? ;)

[bacchanal]

Yeah, they are a local band.

I was underexposing to compensate for the black outfits (while not blowing out the red channel on the masks) and to try and keep my shutter speed up a little...but I think -1 2/3 was a bit much. Well in #7 I didn't have much choice, that was at 1/50 135mm (ISO and Av maxed). Oh well, I just went with it and boosted the exposure and fill light in post to really bring out the noise.

I really need to get better at exposing for performers in all black (in Av mode). What do you guys use in a case like that? Center Weighted Avg? My only problem with CWA is that I'm not really quick at AE locking and recomposing. Maybe I should try bracketing sometime, like Dwight suggests.

[René Damkot]

What do you guys use in a case like that?

Av: Either (spot) meter on a face, and adjust FEC accordingly, or Evaluative, and adjust EC accordingly.

M: if the front lighting is (more or less) constant (which it is in a lot of cases!)

[narlus]

good set, 1 and 6 for me are the best. i agree that the blacks are pretty dense, but not much you can do w/ that, and it doesn't really matter in this case.

[aduda]

#1 and #4 are my favorites. Well done.