Mazzoni at the Brickyard

[Keltic Ice Man]

A couple of friends in a band called Mazzoni played a gig in Carlisle at the brickyard, the other night, and so I thought i'd pop along armed with the 50mm and the 70-200 sigma. The bands claim to fame is that they were on as a support act to Sugarbabes when the babes came to Carlisle last year :D

I think the results aren't to bad, but as ever welcome comments.

#1

http://kelticrose.itsmyland.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/061102___8954-01.jpg

#2
http://kelticrose.itsmyland.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/061102___8949-02b_w.jpg

#3 - the arty shot - In the style of Andy Who?
http://kelticrose.itsmyland.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/061102___8891-01.jpg

#4
http://kelticrose.itsmyland.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/061102___8939-01.jpg

more can be found in my gallery HERE (http://kelticrose.itsmyland.com/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=13)

Thanks for looking :)

All taken with no flash, and ISO 1600 so a bit of noise.

Allan

[Keltic Ice Man]

Oh well the band were happy with them

[Dark Star]

I like them! (Although number 3 is not quite to my taste) 2 and 4 do it for me - singer looks a little like Thom Yorke from that angle!

[lee]

I actually like number 3, thought the processing works really well. Also like number 2.

[ed34]

nice set:thumbs: #2 is my fav

[Keltic Ice Man]

Thanks for the comments guys.

This was my first paid gig, so really glad the band like the end results, and they have asked me to do another gig soon :) They now wish i'd done the shots when they were with the SugerBabes -now that would have been a challenge :love:

[Arkady]

I see you're having linear 'noise' problems like I get in underexposed shadows with my D2x's.
I'd 'kill' the background shadow completely to lose all of that.

[Keltic Ice Man]

Thanks Rob - How do I do that? Its in Raw and so would i process it twice, once for the figure and once for the background - then merge them?

Allan

[Arkady]

Just move (in Photoshop RAW, that is) the 'Shadows' slider until the background goes dark enough for the noise to disappear. If you tick the Shadow and Highlight clipping boxes at the top, you'll get blue/red warning patches appear when all detail is lost - either too dark or too light.
Then you go into PS proper and adjust/fine-tune using either Levels or Curves - whichever you're happier with.