jms,
something strange with your avatar, blown white balance maybe :-)
The links that jeffkrol posted are recommending what he said, use a light blue filter (80A,80B) on your DSLR.
I am wondering wether you can achieve the effect of that filter with manual white balance. The linked posts say No for a daylight-WB-optimized DSLR.
Actually I have such a blue filter from the film days cause it was the only thing that helped for my frequent stage shootings.
And yes if I just shoot RAW (+WB tungsten is the coolest I can get) and then push into the blues in PP, all other colors go blueish. Especially black clothes get very purple.
So, I will try next time manual WB on some reddish stage lights or whitish surfaces lit by those lights (+RAW). And I'll take the blue filter, but it is only 55mm and the lens is 86mm :-) And it will eat another stop of light. Do I need a fullframe easy peasy 3200ISO DSLR? ДڪЖڮЮڴ☼њ♣♫
Here's what it looks like with RAW+tungstenWB with PP-corrected skins (that is the best I could get, originally the faces are red smudge). K100D with 200/2.8 lens. Of course dimly lit stages with yellow-reddish lamps are not of benefit :-(
Last edited by georgweb; 12-01-2008 at 05:14 PM.