The luminance sliders in Lightroom can be your friends, too. Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Thu, 8/12/10, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > I think that I'm starting to get a > handle on the lighting at JJ's. For the most part, I expose > for the red channel and let the blue and green fall where > they may. When I do that, I can usually get a pretty > clean black and white. Sometimes the color is such > that if I bump the exposure, the red clips and the > highlights show up as a bright yellow. A little tweaking > with vibrance and clarity gives me something that looks like > of like a 60's silk screen poster. > > Last night I was experimenting with my flash. I don't have > it quite nailed down, but the combination of flash and red > stage lights gives kind of a nice warm tone to the shots > that I rather like. > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157624583214413/ > > This one is kind of cool because where the flash is > shadowed but the stage lights aren't, it look like the mic > is glowing in her hand: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4884104947/ > > The other thing that I was playing with was using long > focal lengths to bring it in very close to the musicians and > to minimize the background clutter. These were pretty much > all shot with my 18-250 > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com > sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
