We Are The Champions

[Paul T]

This may only be of limited interest but felt this is worth showing. This presentation is about 3minutes long of a Queen tribute band called The Bohemians. I took the shots with the a Nikon D200 mainly by the available stage lights with the ISO rated at 1600 but a few with flash. The show was performed at a Suffolk country village festival in Hatcheston. The file size is rather large because of all the images crammed into the presentation some have to be a large ones because of the zoomed images. If anyone feels like making any comments I will be pleased to receive them good or bad.

Regards Paul

[neil]

Just watched your show and enjoyed it as always seeing what others are up to.

In my opinion it should have been a bit faster with quicker changes.

Thanks for showing it to us all.

Neil

[Hawk]

Paul

Always nice to view a presentation with a different twist.

After just purchasing a D40X, I questioned what you could capture using ISO 1600

Job well done.

[jfa]

I took the shots with the a Nikon D200 mainly by the available stage lights with the ISO rated at 1600 but a few with flash.

Paul I have tried to take shots like this at Jazz festivals at ISO 1600 etc and it is very difficult to achieve well exposed, low noise images. You have done this very well, in fact excellently. I have mentioned in comments on your other shows how I'm impressed by the colour and tones you achieve in your images, well you have done it again and in adverse conditions too, you are a very competent worker in Photoshop.

The small criticism I would make regards the timing of the images with the music. The AV starts well with punchy dissolves and fast image timing to match the music tempo but then slows before the music tempo slows and then when the tempo of the music picks up in the latter part of the show the image timing remains slower. A small point but I would like to see a remake, I think it would improve a already very good show. Thanks again for another interesting AV Paul.

P.S. Have you used any noise reduction software on the images as the lack of noise is remarkable for ISO 1600?

[Paul T]

Paul I have tried to take shots like this at Jazz festivals at ISO 1600 etc and it is very difficult to achieve well exposed, low noise images. You have done this very well, in fact excellently. I have mentioned in comments on your other shows how I'm impressed by the colour and tones you achieve in your images, well you have done it again and in adverse conditions too, you are a very competent worker in Photoshop.

The small criticism I would make regards the timing of the images with the music. The AV starts well with punchy dissolves and fast image timing to match the music tempo but then slows before the music tempo slows and then when the tempo of the music picks up in the latter part of the show the image timing remains slower. A small point but I would like to see a remake, I think it would improve a already very good show. Thanks again for another interesting AV Paul.

P.S. Have you used any noise reduction software on the images as the lack of noise is remarkable for ISO 1600?

Hi John

Thanks for your comments. I agree with your observation regarding the poor timing towards the end of the show. One of the reasons for this was I had run out of images to use. However I could have re used some of the same images a second time around but felt it could be boring to watch. On second thoughts I could have cropped the recycled images and put them through Photoshop with some different filters applied.

Some of the noise was removed with the use of the noise filter in Photoshop but felt in some images it was best left in to give it a gritty feel to the occasion. As you can imagine it wasn’t a big gig, but I had many problems with the crowd being at the front and battling with people who had too much to drink. I did get my camera covered with beer plus myself at one point. I do love slide shows of landscapes and other countries but would also like to see more other subjects covered as well in slide show presentations.

Regards Paul