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What am I doing wrong I'm either getting dark and grainy, or overly bright. The dark photo was on Tv mode with shutter speed at 125, no flash for that event. The other concert was done with a shutter speed of 60-125 and occasion flash. What amd I doing wrong? Any setting tips anyone can give me?
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Mark Feldstein |
Without analyzing your specific photos, here are a couple of tutorials you ought to take a look at. While I don't necessarily agree with everything they offer, I'll bet you find it useful toward resolving your issues. http://www.photo.net/learn/concerts/mirarchi/concer_i http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a?topic_id=1550&category=Low+Light+Shooting+(Bar%2C+Theatre%2C+etc.) My initial thoughts in looking at your gallery photos is that you need to use some kind of camera support. I shoot for a living and I'll bet that I couldn't hold a 300mm lens absolutely steady at 1/60 or less without at least having it mounted on a monopod. The rule of thumb is that you shouldn't try to shoot at any speed slower than about the maximum mm of your lens. So for a 300mm that would be about 1/250th of a sec or you'll likely get camera shake which appears to be what I see in a number of your gallery pix. Also, use professional grade 400 speed film not just Kodacolor or something like that. Fuji is good. FujiPress is very good and lets you use various ISOs on the same roll of film. [It's just magic is all]. Kodak Ektapress is similar but I like the FujiPress better. If you shoot b&w, you can buy 3200 speed film and have a professional b&w lab process it. http://www.isgophoto.com Also remember you're shooting daylight film under artificial / tungsten light. While the Fujipress can handle it pretty well without corrections, you may find adding a color correction filter will produce more pleasing results to you and save your lab trouble of finding one that works for you. If not, then you'll likely see color shifting to amber or yellow in the final prints. Unless you're working very close to the performers, forget using on camera flash. Use available light. If the lighting isn't constant, bracket your exposures. And if you are working close enough to them, say within the first few rows, then you oughtta ask permission to use flash or find out if they allow flash photography for a particular event. Read that first photo.net article and look at the list in the others, consider what I mentioned and keep trying. It's a series of techniques you'll perfect over time.
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