>>3441623if you do concert photography or shoot similarly uncontrolled, low-light situations on a regular basis, here are the 3 most important things I can think of:
1) white balance is either your best friend or your worst enemy. in the face of seriously bright, saturated concert lights, most cameras will fail to auto-balance in a pleasing manner. often you can bring some healthy skin tone back by warming up your photo, but there comes a time when the colors are just too far gone.
the photo attached is an example of this. the white balance is pushed as warm as it will go, and there are still no skin tones to be seen. totally washed out.
2) luminance noise reduction can help you to a point, but it's always better to shoot dark at lower ISO and bring out noise in post than it is to run it all the way up to 6400 and have loads of noise baked in to the photo forever.
the photo attached is an example of this. it was shot at 1600, in a large theater with a pro lighting setup, and I was able to bring the exposure slider up without too much noise. NR took care of the rest without mucking up the image. for me, that's as good as it gets. usually I'm in a basement shooting at 3200 as in
>>3440372 3) short of colorizing it in photoshop, sometimes there's just too much blue. sometimes you just gotta make that sucker black and white and do the best you can with curves, white balance and b&w blend.
thanks for the feedback :)
