p.1 #1 · 6D with 70-200 and 5Dmk3 with 16-35 groovin the moo festival
Hi,
I have just shot 5 GTM festivals in Australia. I sold my 5MK2 and bought a 6d. I used the 6D with 70-200 MK2 for all the festivals. I was very impressed with it once I got my 70-200 in the right image stabilizer, it had flipped over to No 2 in my bag.
The 6D performs extremely well in these low light conditions and in some cases a very heavy smoke machine, it nailed the focus every time. I used it up to 6400 ISO in some shots in very dark situations. With some noise remover in LR they came up well.
I used the my 5D MK3 with a 16-35 which also performed really well. The gallery of shots below is top heavy with crowd shots due to the shots were mainly going up on facebook asap at each festival. The crowd is a young crowd and they are not really interested in the shots if they are not in them.
If you do look unfortunately there is no photo info as I have only just worked it out how to include it with LR. Both cameras are identical in image quality but the 6D has the edge in focusing in very low light...cheers tao
p.1 #3 · 6D with 70-200 and 5Dmk3 with 16-35 groovin the moo festival
Hi dh, I use LR and have applied the same sharpening to all images Amount 70, Radius 1.5, Detail 10 and Masking 20. The rest of the settings I start with a clarity and vibrance of +15, noise remover +25 I usually minus the highlights and increase the whites open the shadows + and - the blacks. Each image varies with these settings. I can get through a lot of images in a short time...thanks mate
dhphoto wrote:
Really nice stuff.
Did you post-process much? They have a nice quality about them.
p.1 #5 · 6D with 70-200 and 5Dmk3 with 16-35 groovin the moo festival
taojones wrote:
Hi dh, I use LR and have applied the same sharpening to all images Amount 70, Radius 1.5, Detail 10 and Masking 20. The rest of the settings I start with a clarity and vibrance of +15, noise remover +25 I usually minus the highlights and increase the whites open the shadows + and - the blacks. Each image varies with these settings. I can get through a lot of images in a short time...thanks mate
Thanks for that, they a real zing about them, nice to know how it was achieved.
p.1 #8 · 6D with 70-200 and 5Dmk3 with 16-35 groovin the moo festival
taojones wrote:
Hi,
I have just shot 5 GTM festivals in Australia. I sold my 5MK2 and bought a 6d. I used the 6D with 70-200 MK2 for all the festivals. I was very impressed with it once I got my 70-200 in the right image stabilizer, it had flipped over to No 2 in my bag.
The 6D performs extremely well in these low light conditions and in some cases a very heavy smoke machine, it nailed the focus every time. I used it up to 6400 ISO in some shots in very dark situations. With some noise remover in LR they came up well.
I used the my 5D MK3 with a 16-35 which also performed really well. The gallery of shots below is top heavy with crowd shots due to the shots were mainly going up on facebook asap at each festival. The crowd is a young crowd and they are not really interested in the shots if they are not in them.
If you do look unfortunately there is no photo info as I have only just worked it out how to include it with LR. Both cameras are identical in image quality but the 6D has the edge in focusing in very low light...cheers tao
p.1 #12 · 6D with 70-200 and 5Dmk3 with 16-35 groovin the moo festival
Hi Luta, I have a couple of 600 EX RT but when I do festivals I use a 270 EX2. Because walking around through crowds with the bigger flash they can get knocked off the camera. A friend lost two 580 in one hit. The 270 has been a great little flash for me especially when you can use a high ISO and f2.8 it will fill a large room. The only disadvantage is not much angle for bounce flash. Apart from that it is great it goes all day and night on 2 AA batteries. You can't use them in the pit but for crowd shots I never have it off.
Thanks everyone else for your comments much appreciated
p.1 #14 · 6D with 70-200 and 5Dmk3 with 16-35 groovin the moo festival
Hi Gonzago, I was switching the flash to ETTL with FEC, manual sometimes, high speed sync and 2nd curtain sync depending on the situation. Because with flash you are exposing for two lights one the ambient light and two the flash. Rule of thumb is to get your ambient exposure first then your flash.
So the photos with the sun behind their heads I set my camera exposure for the back light and the flash exposure for their faces. If I am in ETTL Flash mode I only have one way to control the flash and that is flash compensation. I can allow more light in with the aperture and ISO but this will also bring more light in through out the whole image. Manual flash is different but in this situation ETTL is the best if you keep within the flash sync speed the 6D is 1/180.
ETTL will change with each different situation automatically all you have to think about is the FEC to go plus or minus for the flash exposure and keeping the ambient exposure to how you want it via shutter speed, aperture and ISO. I am not sure if this answers your question....thanks
