The Soft Machine @ Atak

Something different for a change: The Soft Machine. Quite a legendary band in the 70ies I'm told

Just a quick selection of images, not made a final selection yet.
All images here.

Equipment used: 1D2, 35/2.0; 28-105 (other primes still at Canon ); 80-200L

All images through LightRoom. But after reading this article about sharpening. Makes quite a big difference...
Manyk SRS was used as a final step.

#1: The Soft Machine: A bit soft, because I had to use the zoom...

excellent stuff, all really well done.

tSM are a cracking band, too. pity that robert wyatt and kevin ayers didn't partake.

narlus wrote in post #4098983
excellent stuff, all really well done.

q4t.

#2 is IT!

Not a bad set for Atak lighting. It's a pity #5 the drummer is so centered. The sharpening on a couple of the others, #3 & #4 for instance, looks almost overdone. I will, however, be looking at the LR article you referenced ... thank you.

Thanks for that Lightroom sharpening link, Rene. It sure clears up a lot of confusion I had.

Nice shots here, too.

I I'm curious what sharpening settings you used with Lightroom. I'm always afraid to sharpen high ISO shots until after noise reduction, for fear of making the noise worse.

thelightofsound wrote in post #4101644
q4t.

#2 is IT!

Allready on my myspace

DwightMcCann wrote in post #4102356
It's a pity #5 the drummer is so centered. The sharpening on a couple of the others, #3 & #4 for instance, looks almost overdone. I will, however, be looking at the LR article you referenced ... thank you.

There were some people in the way. I did tilt the shot a bit on purpose

I have to look into the sharpening in more detail.

Welcome

Curtis N wrote in post #4105185
I I'm curious what sharpening settings you used with Lightroom.

Here

Another excellent set Rene #s 2, 3, 4 & 6 especially.

Made a final selection, so a bit more images in the gallery now, for those interested.

Posted images may also have changed a bit, since I'd lost the original conversion settings...

(Forgot to convert them to DNG last time)

just heard that Hugh Hopper has passed on. RIP, Hugh.

quality set rene despite having to use lenses you are not 100% with!

really cool shots, gotta look up the band

Nice series. 3,4,6 are my favourites. I'm still waiting to do something and post it here.
There is almost nothing (concerts) happening right now. But, soon everything is starting
all over again.

Nice.