The choir

[morgan]

very interesting image!

i tried a couple of things

before
after

i upped the levels & saturation & sharpened. what do you think?

did you shoot this in raw? if you want to send me the high res image i can try a few more things morganleigh03 @ yahoo

BTW i'm at work so not on my calibrated monitor. I can probably do better at home.

[Yisehaq]

Thanks Marko & Morgan.

Marko learn learn learn, it is. No option but I enjoy the process it now.I hope the spirit will last. Thank you for having this form.

Morgan

I did try to work on the level and curves and sharpness. But you did a fantastic job. I have sent you the raw file through your email. Ready to be surprised. Thanks a lot.

[tegan]

It is easy to tell that although the focus is off too, it is a lighting problem. There is no way that you can have that amount of detail in white clothing and still get good detail in dark faces.

The easy way of getting detail in dark faces is to zoom in close on any face with the light in the same direction and take a reading from your camera. Then use that reading for your wide angle exposure.

Anothe approach would be to take the shot and then another at a half stop over-exposed. Compare on your LCD screen. You can zoom in on the faces even on your LCD and see if the detail is there or not. If for some reason it is too overexposed go to a third stop overexposed instead of a half.

Tegan

[Yisehaq]

Thanks Tegan. I will try that.
One of the problem in this shoot out was that I didn't manage to get vantage point I would have prefered. I couldn't get any closer either. I have to go before they cordon off the area next time. That would be a couple of hours before the cerimony starts.

But till then I will practice your advice as we have plenty of dark faced people with white dresses around here.

One question if people are standing near (5m) and far (50m)with the same direction to the sun (light source) will the same reading (manual adjusted using the close subject) work for both? hope that is not dump question

thanks again.

[tegan]

One question if people are standing near (5m) and far (50m)with the same direction to the sun (light source) will the same reading (manual adjusted using the close subject) work for both? hope that is not dump question

thanks again.

Good question. It would work for both. As Tired Iron pointed out somewhere, it is not perfect, which I agree with. However it will get you closer and you can always use your LCD to make minor adjustments based on what you see.

Post processing will work on one or two faces but it is too tedious when you are talking about a large number. The best software for this is the Viveza plug-in, which you can use for 30 days without paying for it at www.niksoftware.com.

Tegan

[Yisehaq]

Thanks for your adviceTegan