I Had to Do It!

I had driven to Columbus so I brought my gear bag with the 5D2 and an assortment of lenses. It was really cold and while I was not prepared to do outdoor shooting I did get an opportunity to shoot a band at a local restaurant/lounge called Hoggies. I had shot this band with my G9 about a year ago and with the really really bad high ISO images the G9 produces I could only turn to an artsy image. With the 5D2 in ˙and it would be interesting to see how I could get the images.

This first image of the band was using the EF 16-35 f/2.8L USM lens 1/10 second at f/4 with an ISO 0f 6400 and a focal length of 35 mm. Locking in on the lead singer tended to blur the others in the band as they were moving around a good bit. The other problem I had going on here was the band had no front lighting what so ever. Add to that the bright wall lighting in the background and there you have it. Big time lighting issues.

Here are a couple more images from that night.

This one is at 1/15 second f/2.8 ISO 6400 with the EF 50 mm f/1.4

This again is with the EF 50 mm f/1.4 only at 1/15 second f/2.8 ISO 6400 

This one is clearly the winner with the little guy banging around on the drums. The specs on this shot were still on the EF 50 mm f/1.4 shot at 1/15 second, f/2.8, ISO 6400.

That was all last Wednesday but could not get to the images until I got home and could fire the RAW's up in Lightroom due to the previously mentioned hose job by Adobe. I am still looking forward having the office done so I can upgrade to CS4 and be done with this mess. It would also be nice if Adobe would put put the Mac version of Elements 7.0 so I could put it on my PowerBook G4. The time will come!

Hey, it's time to spend so couch time with my dear wife so I am outta here!

Cya... Doug