Bacon Brothers @ Rams Head On Stage

Thanks to Stacey, aka The Music Scene Zine, I was able to secure a photo pass to photograph the Bacon Brothers in Annapolis, Maryland. This is the band of actor Kevin Bacon and older brother Michael. The venue is a small, seated venue that only holds 250 people. The lighting was very dim and they band was painted in orange lighting from start to finish. I used a Nikon D200, Nikon 70-200 f/2.8 wide open, ISO 1600, and aperture priority mode. The max shutter speed I got on any single image was 1/25 of a second. Most were between 1/10 and 1/20 which means very few clean images. And at ISO 1600, plenty of noise. I was able to salvage a few via black & white conversion and heavy handed noise reduction in Adobe Camera Raw. Reducing them to web presentation size also eliminated a lot of the remaining noise. The original images are not print publishable.