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T5i - Any suggestions for white balance settings (or other) when shooting an indoor concert?

Started Dec 20, 2014 | Questions thread
AdriaanMeijer
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Re: T5i - Any suggestions for white balance settings (or other) when shooting an indoor concert?

Have something neutral grey with you and have it inside your frame with some shots...

In pop-like concerts keep in mind that you'll often have loads of dark in your frame and only a small part lit brightly. I deal with that differently:
1. Spotmetering can help,
2. global metering with compensation (the image overall should be dark, so day -1 or -2 EV)
3. sometimes even Manual (don't forget to set it back).

Don't be afraid too much for grain, so use a high iso if needed.

Also (but that's not a setting) walk around.

colored light can cause one color to be overexposed, this can quite easily be addressed in Photoshop using de lightness from another channel.

Sometimes WB can be adressed by rendering to B/W. I do add some color and light in LR sometimes with local adjustments.

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