Brian Roman & Cara Chisholm at Roy Thompson Hall

[Kelly Grannell]

taken at the very back row of the concert hall using 30D, JPEG, ISO1600, Canon 70-200 f/2.8L IS with Kenko 1.4x TC. Picture Setting set to User (based on Natural but with Sharpness and Saturation reduced by 2 points. Noise reduced using Imagenomic Noiseware Portrait Preset (weakest noise reduction), no PP.

 

[LMarge]

Great shots Kelly! I love the first one - the black background with him in black looks very sexy!!! (not that you had anything to do with that , but the shot is sweet!)

 

[Kelly Grannell]

Thanks for the compliments. I personally love that shot the best. I only took about 200 pictures during the concert, unfortunately I'm only happy with about 170 of them some of them (the 30 I had to discard) were blurry due to my fault (camera shake)

 

[LMarge]

Thanks for the compliments. I personally love that shot the best. I only took about 200 pictures during the concert, unfortunately I'm only happy with about 170 of them some of them (the 30 I had to discard) were blurry due to my fault (camera shake)

What exactly will you do with 170 shots of one concert?! I'm a scrapbook junkie so tht would be no issue, but what does a pro do with all those pics?

 

[Kelly Grannell]

Well, some of them I sell to the press, some to Toronto Opera Company, most to Brian Roman, about 30 shots alone are dedicated to Cara Chisholm, the dancers etc.

I keep all of them as archive, though.

 

[WillCAD]

Holy cowpies - I guess I can see now why you spent all that money on that lens!

I couldn't have made those shots look that good from 10' away with my Speedlight.

 

[Kelly Grannell]

They were taken about 100' away without flash and handheld. The lens is heavy as heck, though. Including the camera, lens, teleconverter, vertical grip and batteries, the total weight is about 10 lbs.

 

[boBQuincy]

Which is why I chose the 70-200 f4!
I give up 1 stop of light and IS for a package that weighs only a few lbs. The problem for a pro is that it won't deliver when the light is really low but if there is decent light it works well.

Davy Jones at Epcot last May. The EXIF data shows it was 30 meters away.

Besides, I cheat, I use a 3 ounce monopod.


boB

>They were taken about 100' away without flash and handheld. The lens is >heavy as heck, though. Including the camera, lens, teleconverter, vertical grip >and batteries, the total weight is about 10 lbs.

 

[Kelly Grannell]

LOL! But with 1.4x TC, it'll make it f/5.6, completely unuseable in low light situation (especially as low as Brian's concert last night). Also I can't be sprinting around the hall with a monopod

 

[crazyme5kids]

Great pictures! I love the first shot. Someday when I get a nice digital SLR I'll come back and look at your advice on the settings you used!

 

[Kelly Grannell]

It's really easy, actually. There is no "secret" to it.

1. aim at his face and use spot meter
2. press exposure lock
3. reframe
4. shoot

You just really need to know your camera so you can do all that in a split second.

 

[crazyme5kids]

Easy for you to say lol! really though, the pictures are really nice, I would love to see more.

 

[Kelly Grannell]

Wanna see more? here you go!

 

[crazyme5kids]

Very nice!