Concert Photography Tips: A FAQ Perhaps

[Posidon324]

Originally Posted by DwightMcCann

Jerry Klein just pointed out that we don't have a link for the Opanda browser plug-in that allows you to see EXIF and IPTC data in your browser, so here it is: http://opanda.com/! This is a MUST HAVE for photographers and is FREE!

There is also a Firefox add-on that allows you to pull EXIF info (both locally and remote).

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905

Enjoy.

[René Damkot]

Anb of course, there is Jeffry's Exif Viewer. About the only option when using Safari.
(I really wish Firefox would color manage...)

[DwightMcCann]

Model Release Links:

http://www.danheller.com/model-release.html

[DwightMcCann]

Sharpen After Resizing: Over and over again people need to be reminded that resizing an image, particularly smaller, usually requires sharpening/re-sharpening, AFTER the resizing. Resizing merges pixels and loses edge contrast which makes the images look soft. When you resize for the web you almost always need to resharpen. BUT be aware that resizing/sharpening should only be once per size. Don't take your original image, resize to one size, sharpen, then take that image and resize, sharpen again, and then again. Always go back to the original size to each new size.

[gcobb]

On Topic: Opera is a good browser that not only eliminates the vulnerabilities with Internet Explorer, but will show you exif data when right clicking on any image that contains that information. It also supports native tabbed browsing.

[René Damkot]

Try this rticle: Click
Here is a direct link to the zipped action: Click

[FugiTive]

Originally Posted by René Damkot

Try this rticle: Click
Here is a direct link to the zipped action: Click

Yeah, that's where I was trying to download the action from but it kept timing out. It works now - guess the website must have been having DNS issues.

I've attached the action to this post so at least if it happens again there will be a copy stored here =)

[DwightMcCann]

Registering Copyright: I am slowly being forced to investigate some aspects of Copyright. I am very open to being corrected but I believe the Readers' Digest Condensed Version is, "Your work (photographs) are copyrighted at the instant they are created in the camera unless you have contracted them to someone else in writing. You may be able to recover actual damages if your copyright is violated, but this may not even cover your legal costs. If you register your images with the Library of Congress, you may also be entitled to punitive damages which can be substantial." Without going further into this morass, sfaust provided these links as a starting point for learning about registering your copyrighted images:

http://www.peterkrogh.com/copyright/main.html
http://www.sethresnick.com/photograp...tregister.html
http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2001/66fr37142.html
http://www.asmp.org/commerce/legal/copyright/

If anyone else has better information or perhaps step-by-step instructions on registering hundreds (for most of us) or tens of thousands (at least me) of images please either add your post to this thread or send me the information to replace this post. As I work my way through this I will try to make notes and/or update the URLs above. One of the items in which I am interested is how much "punitive damages" really are.

The reason this has suddenly become important, at least to me, is due to a very, very clever observation by sfaust that one may need to protect the interests of ones clients with respect to images in which one retains copyright. In plainer language, I shoot for the Chumash Casino Resort (among others). Many of those images are posted for public viewing. If someone uses one of those images in a way defamatory to my client, the Chumash Casino Resort, or to its owners, the Santa Ynez Band of the Chumash Indians, we will want to sue such abusers into the stone age for the copyright violations without having prove any other intent. This is only possible with registered copyright.

[DwightMcCann]

Rene's RAW Blending Tutorial:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/...d.php?t=362356

[René Damkot]

A thread on how to keep on shooting if you've managed to break a lever in your 1D2: Click.

Might come in handy some day...

[René Damkot]

Sharpening in LR: How does it work.

[DwightMcCann]

IPTC & Google Alerts: letting Google keep an eye out for stuff.
I exhibit a lot of my work online at DwightMcCann.com. It is all copyright by me and I have clear notices that it is not to be copied (or downloaded but of course you can't look at it if you don't download it ... sometimes we have to say weird things to cover ourselves) but sometimes folks copy it anyway. That's mostly OK with me if they use it just for themselves. But sometimes they do other, infringing activities. One guy was selling my Taylor Swift images via eBay and I had to ask him to stop because Taylor's Mom objected to the language he was using to advertise. There have been a few other instances. But this week I was asked by Luis Miguel to remove my images of him from the web which I did immediately. Today I got a Google Alert that my images of Luis Miguel were on Flickr in someone's gallery and were public. Google Alerts allow you to request an email whenever keywords you specify are discovered by the Google search engines. I've been doing this for several years and it is amazing! But the reason Google knew the images were mine was that I put IPTC data in all my images and try to ensure that it remains when I upload to my galleries. Flickr exposes IPTC data in some of its image display formats and was where it caught Jezabell Suad with her hand in my cookie jar. I currently only do Google Alerts for my name. Anyway, I recommend Google Alerts for everyone who posts on the web: http://www.google.com/alerts and hardily encourage adding and preserving IPTC data in your images.

So here we are, three weeks later and Flickr has continued to ignore my Notice of Infringement for these nine images. I will finally make the time over the Thanksgiving holiday to register the images and then turn the case over to an IP attorney, sigh.

[DwightMcCann]

Originally Posted by BOUNCINGNRG

Whats the best way to do this as stage lighting changes in brightness and colour?

Cheers

It's not the concerts with the big deal Atomic lights and spotlights, etc., where this is valuable, but the smaller venues with consistently poor lighting where it is useful. You do have to get to the stage and use a gray card or one of those amazingly expensive ExpoDisc's. Anyway, if you don't know how to set white balance for your camera you should read the instructions or go to the equipment forums. Learn to do it in ten seconds or less so that when it would be useful you won't hesitate ... it is really trivial and vastly improves the look of images shot in ugly fluorescent or incandescent lighting. If you shoot in RAW it can save time in post processing plus it may give better results than hand adjusting since it sets temperature and hue both.

[narlus]

but dwight, if you do set a custom white balance using stage lighting before the band gets on, doesn't that just suit that one lighting condition? when the lights change (colors), doesn't that custom white balance no longer apply?

[BOUNCINGNRG]

Dwight,

Sorry, i ment what narlus is talking about, as the lighting changes when the bands come on.

Cheers