I had the great pleasure of being able to shoot the Joe Bonamassa rock/blues concert in San Francisco on Friday, and the double pleasure of being able to use Canon\'s 200mm f/1.8L lens.
The lighting changed drastically, but I was able to get a decent exposure most of the time.
My real problem was that I was in the back of the theater, about 100-120\' away, most of the time, although at one point I got as close as 75\', I think.
The resulting images showed quite a bit of noise unless there was a bright white spotlight on the subject. So I had shots with a clear, sharp face, but noisy guitar or pants (where there was no spotlight). Or the shots were noisy b/c of dark colored lighting.
My question is what\'s the best way to brighten, sharpen, and reduce noise so that the images look great?
Perhaps the answer is to be much closer next time, in which case, OK. I know it was my first time shooting a rock concert, but I want the images to be great if I\'m using a 200/1.8!!
Thank you for your help.
Gary
Mar 15, 2010 at 12:33 AM
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