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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
These are exceptional. Did you get them to smile for you or by strange chance they do as they recognize you with your camera as a familiar figure and put on a perfect happy relaxed face as opposed to that inward concentrating set of poses some musicians fall into when concentrating on the music I. Their private internal mental arena?
 
These are exceptional. Did you get them to smile for you or by strange chance they do as they recognize you with your camera as a familiar figure and put on a perfect happy relaxed face as opposed to that inward concentrating set of poses some musicians fall into when concentrating on the music I. Their private internal mental arena?

Thank you Asher. Well, they know me and some smile because of that but it's more they are totally engrossed and then they look up and there I am.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
The results are exceptional! I have never seen better.

But howโ€™s the color with the odd stage lighting that one often encounters and what camera do you use?

Asher
 
The results are exceptional! I have never seen better.

But howโ€™s the color with the odd stage lighting that one often encounters and what camera do you use?

Asher

Of course these are duotones but all the links go to colour images. So following comments are for the colour images, as all start from.

Stage lighting at Thredbo ranges from good to poor and is never very good to excellent. One venue in particular has lighting at the front and the drummer at the back in darkness. Operating at high ISOs that can be an insoluble problem. Others can have very intense red light on only some of the performers. I process in Capture One. I think of my approach as "enhanced reality". The colour from the camera is not accurate and neither is my memory so I try to produce what will seem real and compelling to people's imagination. For a performance I start processing one image, apart from cropping and straightening, and copy that to other selected images as a starting point. I process subject and background differently including variations in colour.

My main camera is a Nikon Z6iii with also a Z6ii. I use 14-24mm f2.8, 35mm f1.8, 50mm f1.8, 85mm f1.8 and Sigma 135mm f1.8 for Nikon F. Where I need more length, I also use a Fuji X-T5 with a 200mm f2 because it is much lighter than my Nikon F 300mm f2.8 (that I should sell).
 
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