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Digigenic said:
Thankyou for the compliments, Wilx.

There is a significant amount of post processing done to achieve that look ...
...it makes your files huge and kind of cumbersome, but it's very much worth it in the end.
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Thanks a lot for the tips. I use Gimp rather than photoshop - mainly because it's open source, and therefore free! Photography at the moment is a very new hobby - but I'll take your tips on bord - I've already switched to RAW shooting ready for my next photography fix!

Thanks.
 
you guys are right this is very hard to accomplish. im fairly new to still photog but here are some shots i took in the worlds worst lit bar. they turn all the lights off except some really bad disco lights haha. i realize they are underexsposed but i was shooting with a D50 @ 1600 iso with a 50mm 1.8 and i had to bump the shutter up some as to not get all the motion blur. no cropping or photoshop work on these just reduced to 72dpi

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Matt S.
Those are tight... I'm sure the guys were really happy when you dropped those shots on 'em.

Damn... I actually forgot all about 1600 ISO!

Well the band loved the photos I got anyway... they're going to pay me to come back and give it another go. I told them that if they can accept a low power flash that I can improve on what I got the first time.

One of my favorite pics is super blown out... but I think it would make a cool album cover. Check it... be right back to post it. (need to resize) Okay here it is:

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Whenever I do a concert, I always shoot at 1600ISO and set the shutter speed to 60 or 80 using my 1.8 glass. I find that generally yields good results. Sometimes, though, you have to up the shutter more to catch some fast action (but lose some light).

Here are two sets of bands I've done pictures for in the past. For the Metrolites, though, the first 10 or so pics were taken with a Nikon Coolpix 995. I miss that little bugger.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilgryphmaster/sets/72157594186610859/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilgryphmaster/sets/72057594135115926/
 
Those are some really nice shots man.

I think the lesson learned here... which applies to ALL of photography... is that light is, and will ALWAYS be, everything. (I've typed this exact sentence in the lighting forum a couple times through the years.)

Find ways to control or harness the light and you will get the photographs that you intend to... rather then simply getting lucky. Fast glass and high ISO takes a little pressure off of the shutter speed... then adding some low flash removes some of the shooting obstacles. I went into my shoot with 1.8 glass and 200 (aargh) ISO... turned off the AF assist... then shot a hundred pics in hopes of getting a few keepers.

The controlled light setups in LGM's photos above are excellent (and I like many of the other shots too). I told my band buddies that we need to get some shots before the show... something with real lighting.
 
MattinSTL thanks for the comment. i like your blown out shot. gives it a nice surreal look.
Lilgryph those shots are great as well!
now if i can only make it to a show which has some kind of stage lighting instead of one revolving /flashing disco light :)
 
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