Last weekend I shot a local benefit concert held in a small club. My first
"real" attempt at any form of concert photography. Used Tri-X at EI400 and
had planned to use the 85/2 and 50/1.4 on an OM-2S. Based on "available
light" references, normal stage lighting would allow f/2 or f/2.8 at 1/60th
or 1/125th. Quickly learned their lights are not nearly as bright as other
stages! Ended up using the 50/1.2 wide open and shooting everything at
about 1/30th. Lesson learned: next time I'll have some TMax P3200 which
can easily be used from its rated EI800 to Push 2 at EI3200. Then I can
select the amount of push (if any) based on the lighting!
Yield wasn't horribly high, but did get some interesting photographs
back. Scanned a few of the 4x6 proofs on a cheap flatbed and posted them here:
http://johnlind.tripod.com/benefitconcert/
IMHO, running available light is much, much, much better than using a
flash! Now if I can get just a little more depth of field and a slightly
faster shutter speed. <sigh>
Comments and any suggestions are most welcome.
Question:
I was thinking about trying some Ektachrome 320T (tungsten) at push 1 to
EI640 for something like this. Has anyone pushed the tungsten 320T before,
and if so how did it work out? Kodak's data sheet says nothing about
pushing it which makes me suspicious about how amenable it is to being pushed.
Thanks,
-- John
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