70-200 2.8L II + stars passing the red carpet / IS - aperture - colour balance ?

1. Yesterday my first shots where with IS on, but I switched it off as the stars are moving on the red carpet, correct?
2. I also tend to use this lens too much wide open, but the dof is too narrow for people/couples and sometimes groups, would you use f4 or even more for a small/larger group of stars together?
3. Most pics have also a red colourtone, caused by the red carpet and the lights, how would you have adjusted colourbalance ?

I will try to fix as much as possible through PP, but next time better results out of the cam would be nicer, especially sharpness.

1. Leave IS on unless you are on a monopod or tripod.
Care to post some red carpet images?

How far were you from the carpet that you had to use this lens?

Well I was in front of the red carpet, stars came right in our direction.
Last time I used 24-70, but I wanted to test my 70-200 II and it's more handy cause the rest that I have are primes (sold 24-70), I thought to shoot more details/close-ups.

This type of photography is not my basic thing, just for fun, that's why I normally prefer primes instead of 24-70.
Actually most of the photographers had shorter lenses like the 24-70 with them.
One had 2 body's with both lenses.

In enclosure some examples with red faces due to the carpet (there were also some yellow lights from above) so difficult situation, I lowered the colourtone to check but put it back original.
I don't know what you find of those pics, disturbing colours or am I picky ?

Yeah...the colors are way off. It detracts from the photo. Try to remove the red color cast as much as possible.

How would you suggest, select the faces seperately and choose less red colour, otherwise the whole pictures would become more blue-ish and the red carpet too, which has to stay red.

s2kennyc wrote in post #14964495
Yeah...the colors are way off. It detracts from the photo. Try to remove the red color cast as much as possible.

Way too Red.

CanonYouCan wrote in post #14964603
How would you suggest, select the faces seperately and choose less red colour, otherwise the whole pictures would become more blue-ish and the red carpet too, which has to stay red.

Use a layer mask and desaturated the reds from your subjects.

Yikes, that looks like a lot of work.

As to your question about shooting wide open, I was talking to a red carpet shooter, and he was telling me that he shoots at f/7.1 with on camera flash. He prefocuses and tapes the ring so he doesn't move it. The 7.1 was enough DOF to make sure everything was in focus. I guess he just waits until they get in front of him and pose to shoot. I forget if he was shooting with a 1D3 or a 1Ds3, but it was a pretty short lens (maybe 17-40).

use a flash next time

Correct remark! First I thought the red colourcast was from the carpet, but I didn't put flash on
These 2 here below were with 580EXII on, still too red or better?

NZed wrote in post #14966568
use a flash next time