Originally posted by Marc Sabatella Of course, also contributing to the "studio" look is the background. Was that what was there, or is that the result of PP?
Thanks Marc.
No post processing just as-is - other than fairly standard brightness/contrast and a little sharpening.
The stage used a white backdrop curtain which lights were shone on - that gave the background lighting - in the
rest of that Album -
one can see in these
shot1;
shot2;
shot3 and others of the full stage, give an idea of what the set up was like. These from the side of the stage
side1;
side2 - show that the "white" lights were mainly over-head - unlike most concert venue lighting where they are mostly in front pointing at the artists.
Actually I found these two shots (my "discards" and not meant to be posted) that hopefully show the set up better -
Both from the side of the stage -
this shows the back-drop curtain lit up red in this shot - I guess the (red) lights were from the top just in front of the back screen behind the baffles - see other pics of the full stage in the links above.
Even more intersting were the overhead lights -
I now see there are quite a few fluorescent panels - that may explain why AWB (Auto White Balance) worked so well for me last night - whereas actual Tungsten balance (which works better with traditional concert incandescent lighting) came out too blue/cool.
Interesting.... notice the metadata which I re-attached with PhotoME shows both these shots with White Balance Auto (Daylight) - whereas on the shots posted above from this set - the green background gets Auto (White Fluorescent) and the red background shots get Auto (Tungsten)....
This was one of the few cases where the K100D AWB performed better than any other set white balance I tried.
Thanks for asking - as it brought out things I would probably not have looked for.