concert shots tutorials?

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So I want to make my concert shots look better..

are there any good tutorials? i've searched on google, but I've failed to find any :(

someone on this forum kindly edited one of my shots from this night, but i think i might need to use different techniques for the different lightings.


here are the originals (resized)

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http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h112/TheRaconteursLive/The Horrrors/1789.jpg
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h112/TheRaconteursLive/The Horrrors/1799.jpg


I'd like some advice on these also.

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http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h112/TheRaconteursLive/jack and brendan/brendan.jpg
I know the quality of most of these shots is really bad. but i'd like to bring out the best in them :)
 
These are really quite bad. Aside from what looks like flash use, which has destroyed any kind of atmosphere, they seem out of focus and soft. Gig photography, with the right equipment, is something you can get right there and then. You could try adjusting the levels to add more contrast.
 
In contrary to mr optimism's post above you can do a fair bit of processing to make this passable.

First off I would give them a quick "auto levels" in photoshop, that will probably sort a bit of the white haze out (play with "levels" if you want to fine tune it) then I would open "Brightness and Contrast" and shove up the contrast a bit, might not work for all of them, but should get rid of more of the flash haze.

Then to combat the noise either run it through some sort of noise remover or covert to black and white wherer the noise/grain can kind of work for you :)

Couple of examples:

Colour, auto levels, contrast boost and Noiseware Pro
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Black and White, auto levels, contrast boost, slight noiseware reduction
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Looking at them now saved to jpeg I have oversharpened the black and white - but you get the idea.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
In contrary to mr optimism's post above you can do a fair bit of processing to make this passable.
Click to expand...

Sorry, but yeah may have been a tad harsh :p The point I was trying to make was that good gig photography comes from capturing the natural light thats there. Don't use your flash. Don't think that you can come home and Photoshop to stunning results. It can all be done at the gig with the right kit. Jimmy's results ain't bad, but the left hand side of the photo is pointless and you cut off the top of his guitar. You can't fix that now.
 
What camera is it? It looks like auto settings as Pete said soft, out of focus and hard flash.

That aside the content isn't brilliant but thats just practice.

Jimmy has the right idea and done a good salvage job! B/W looks like the answer (helps with the hard flash). That pic would be better cropped but thats a personal thing...

Plus..I cannot believe google came up with no results!


Here is a helpful link instead:)

http://boudist.com/archive/2006/02/08/tips_for_live_music_concert_photography.php

See arn't I nice? :wave:

I'll have a go at one of these pics later
 
sakura these are just old photos of mine, using my crappy samsung digimax D73

thanks a lot Jimmy_Lemon I will try that out :)


also I know flash ruins photos at gigs, but (call me dumb if you will) I have no idea how to turn the flash off on this camera.
 
ive tried that, but it comes up all red and weird usually :(

but i don't use this camera anymore :) i have a canon 400D now
 
i haven't been able to do these :( they turn out wrong.. all orangey/red looking
 
Just imported one of the pix and ran it through Photoshop. Didn't bother with levels went straight to curves and just like Jimmy's images got an improvement straight away.A quick crop and much better.

Would have posted it but closed PS and forgot to save it :bonk:

If you've a 40D try shooting RAW. this will hold more detail in the file when it comes to post processing.

What image processing software do you have?
 
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