I made some comment regarding RAW in this thread
http://www.robgalbraith.com/ubbthrea...o=&fpart=1
and recent circumstances just reminded me that shooting RAW is a good thing. I shot a fashion show last Sunday under another tent (my dislike of tent is growing like wild fire!) I knew I had tons of mixed lighting and backlit problem on hand but not how bad until I saw the images on the monitor.
THE SHOOT:
- Follow the link to see some photos of the event. I was moving from the tent, to the dressing room. to the liquor alley, to the waterfront dock, and back to the tent. The white balance was on auto and the camera setting was either manual or AV.
- I covered the models with a pair of 550EX wireless in master / slave configuration.
- My crew also covered the event with 3 camcorders.
THE PROBLEM:
- Mr Murphy paid a big visit! Each corner of the tent and the run way had it's own peculiar mix of lighting. The run way lighting was flat and washed with orange color cast fron the translucent roof, blue color cast from the transparent bay windows, light yellow color cast from the tent walls, strong yellow color cast from the can lights placed along the run way. Everyone looked like George Romero's zombies. People sitting side by side had a different hue!
- Once the show started, there was no time to check the histograms or previews.
- I was coping with the DSLR and the exposure/WB/sound settings for the camcorders (XL1S & DVX100A) as well.
THE FIX:
- Exposure and color correction effect eachother. C1 interface's allowance of instant access to curves, level, WB temp, color wheel adjustment, saturation, and focus from the same panel making image correction a far simpler task than PS's workflow. Click any file in the same folder and the image instantly appear on the monitor, no waiting.
- I made broad corrections on an image, apply the settings to a group of image through batching, then fine tune each image as needed. At times, I apply the fine tunings to a smaller number of images in the group, and repeat the steps until I'm happy with the results.
It took me about 4 hours to transfer and fix approximately 300 photos. It probably will take much longer than that had I shot this event in JPG. You can see the extend of the color cast problem in an unfixed photo (CRW_6087).
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/Albu...254972&f=0
Regards,
Alan
Linear Mode
