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Styx @ Birmingham NEC UK

published by emt on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 3:04pm

In another forum I posted images from my protege. These here are samples of the ones I took.
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7 - if anyone has a good idea on how to crop this one to a usable format (web or otherwise) please go for it and post it back.

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Comment & Critique - Live, Backstage, Promo, etc

Submitted by Rene Damkot on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 3:20pm.

Looks like #1, 2 and 5 are front focussed.
#1 and 5 are nice otherwise.
#2: Feet! (I think I mentioned this allready)

#4 would have been nice if the moving head weren't there.

#7:

Submitted by emt on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 3:37pm.

René Damkot wrote:
Looks like #1, 2 and 5 are front focussed.

Ok, geeklish. Don't understand but want to.

Quote:
#1 and 5 are nice otherwise.
#2: Feet! (I think I mentioned this allready)

#4 would have been nice if the moving head weren't there.

#7:

Yes, well, wrong lens on at the time and high stage on #2

The moving head in # could be cropped out but you'd loose a band member. All six of them are in the shot. Other than that - I agree, it would have been better if it wasn't for that.

And thank you for comments and thank you for the crop. I was suggested by a friend to do that but thought cropping out the stage wouldn't work. I knew the jump was coming and waited for it. Was in the perfect position and then chuck walks right in on it. ARGH!

But your crop work surprisingly well.

Thanks

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Submitted by Rene Damkot on Sat, 05/12/2007 - 4:42pm.

emt wrote:
Ok, geeklish. Don't understand but want to.

Looks like focus is on the mic in #1, on the right hand in 2, and on the hand in 5.

Submitted by Kalle Björklid on Sun, 05/13/2007 - 7:07am.

René Damkot wrote:

emt wrote:
Ok, geeklish. Don't understand but want to.

Looks like focus is on the mic in #1, on the right hand in 2, and on the hand in 5.

And to further explain "front focused" means that the focus plane (the imaginary "plane" where the image is sharp depth-of-field-wise) is front from the desired point (or what the viewer perveives as desired). This may happen because the fousing mechanism has caught something that is in front of where you wanted to focus (microphone might be such a distraction, for instance), or the focusing mechanism of the camera/lens combination isn't working correctly.

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Submitted by emt on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 8:39am.

Thanks. Have figured it out. I will run a couple of test shots on the lens. If there is an issue I did buy it with warranty so the shop will then have to sort it.

Cheers
/E

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Submitted by DwightMcCann on Sat, 05/26/2007 - 1:54pm.

Hey, Tat, there's no EXIF! Nice to see you over here. I think this is where I will be coming now that I shoot RAW in order to get PS guidance.

Dwight McCann

Submitted by emt on Sun, 05/27/2007 - 2:30pm.

DwightMcCann wrote:
Hey, Tat, there's no EXIF! Nice to see you over here. I think this is where I will be coming now that I shoot RAW in order to get PS guidance.

No Exif?

Huh?

Hmmm.... exported out of Lightroom. I'll see what I can do about that.

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