I am able to get into venues with the gear I have, including the big white lens, because I know most of the club owners or I am there shooting for various radio stations.
For example, I have a 12 hour concert to shoot today from noon until about 11pm tonight.. Robert Earl Keen is the headliner but there are about 12 artist involved throughout the day.
When shooting in venues like Billy Bob's Texas.. or maybe I should just say when shooting under club or nighttime lighting I always shoot manually. I usually use ISO 800 and roll the shutter speed and aperature according to what the lighting guy is doing and the DOF I am looking for... but I usually end up shooting around 180 at F4.
Banding? I have never experienced it once with the 20D.
Noise Reduction? Just what is in the camera.
Processing? Photoshop CS... Auto color, Levels, contrast and a little USM
Please make no mistake, this image is not right out of the camera.. I had time to post process one shot last night before I hit the bed around 2:30am... I'm running on about 4 hours sleep and have to leave for today's concert in about an hour.
I have some other good shots of members of the band and Bobby Bland as well but will not have time to work on them until Monday.
Shot the Blues last night and shooting Country today.. I'm already tired.
Here is the EXIF data for this shot:
File: C:\My Photos\REVIEW FOLDER\2005-05-29\IMG_4705.JPG
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Jim Radcliffe
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The ability to 'see' the shot is more important than the gear.
