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09/23/2006 11:01:30 AM · #1 |
I am shooting in a legion hall tonight, covering a fundraising auction for the municipality. i have a 1g card - that's it. i'd like to shoot raw, but only get 90 raw images on the card. ok, i could limit the shots i take, but i don't really want to.
so, will large files be enough to deal with the crappy lighting? i'm about to go to the dollar store to get a white ball to fit over the flash, but aside from that, it'll be crappy flourescent, iso 1600, etc. etc.
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09/23/2006 11:17:46 AM · #2 |
You should be able to do okay with large jpgs. If were me though, and I could, I'd stop by 'The Wal-Mart' and grab a 2nd 1Gb card. Is that possible?
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09/23/2006 11:58:22 AM · #3 |
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09/23/2006 12:04:13 PM · #4 |
| Have you ever shot raw before. If not this might not be the time to start. How big are you going to make prints. If you are only going up to 8X10 then large JPEG should be good. Shooting RAW will not make that much difference in lighting. Try getting close to your subject and let the flash do the work. Try and stay away from the high ISO if possible. |
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09/23/2006 12:07:52 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Baxter:
Have you ever shot raw before. If not this might not be the time to start. How big are you going to make prints. If you are only going up to 8X10 then large JPEG should be good. Shooting RAW will not make that much difference in lighting. Try getting close to your subject and let the flash do the work. Try and stay away from the high ISO if possible. |
Hate to argue, but if you are shooting in tricky light, RAW is the ONLY way to go. If you shoot JPG your stuck with the white balance, whereas RAW you can at least get rid of as much colour cast as possible.
I would shoot RAw, and just check your images periodically, deleting all the poor shots and keeping anything good. If possible, you need to get more memory, especially if your accepting offers of work.
Good luck, hope it goes well for you! |
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09/23/2006 12:08:10 PM · #6 |
i shoot raw most of the time now. i like the lattitude it gives in shadow and highlight detail. i realise it won't physically help the lighting, but will help the exposure lattitude possible. i hope to be able to use iso 400, but i think that'll be lucky - legions tend to be pretty poorly lit...
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09/23/2006 12:09:54 PM · #7 |
this is a freebie, but good local exposure. they'll be announcing that i'm taking pics at the start of the auction, and i can have my cards and flyers on display as well. so, it's a bit of active advertising. usually, i shoot in daylight, so this is not my usual lighting thang...
plus, they asked me to do this last night...
Message edited by author 2006-09-23 12:10:55.
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09/23/2006 12:17:25 PM · #8 |
Weither you shoot raw or high quality jpeg, if you have one, take a black/white or better a black/gray/white card with you and shoot it in the same lighting every once in awhile. I have several things I use... The WhiBal card, Digital Calibration Target, photo black/white card and a McBeth chart. For portability, I like the WhiBal card, which is pocket size and the Digital Calibration Target, which is 14" but is on flex frame that folds down to 6" and will fit in my back pocket. The big advantage to these are you don't have to worry about color balance when you are shooting. If you shoot raw, you can select the white point of one of the cards and use that to convert all of your raw images, putting them pretty close to color balanced before you do anything else.
I agree that raw is the way to go. I shoot 99.99% of the time in raw. I carry about 8 gigs worth of CF cards though and also have a 40 gig Image Tank to dump my cards into if I'm going to fill all of my cards up... I also use the tank on important shoots, even if I don't use all of my cards just so I have the images in two places.
If you don't have time to get a calibrated card to shoot, take something white with you that you know is a neutral white (or have a pretty good idea it's close) and put it on a table or have someone hold it every once in awhile so you have a reference point. It will save you a lot of work later.
Mike
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