X100 group shot

sluggy_warrior wrote:

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

Any time that there is enough light, but without harsh contrast - definitely avoid midday sun or you're going to have deep shadows to sort in post, best to avoid this. An overcast sky with bright, but diffuse light would be ideal.

Unless you've got a good light source in foreground and/or you want to intentionally blow out the background, I would avoid this.

And shoot RAW+JPG. As long as there's no significant clipping, most harshness due to high DR can be compressed/resolved with RAW.

Besides, you can't be sure if the camera will get the correct WB, skin tone might be slightly off. Having the RAW will save the day.

It depends on subject distance, but I'd likely go f/5.6 - f/8 for the good sharpness and plenty of DOF.

Yes! I had f/5.6 or f/6.4 for 4 rows

Don't worry about it, take a bunch of shots with a bit more and less exposure if you aren't sure. Short bursts are a good idea to (hopefully) get one with everyone's eyes all open at the same time (and the means to fix that if they aren't).

Yes. Take a lot to be on the safe side. If people don't move too much in between shots, it's relatively easy to use Hugin with masks to merge the eyes/faces from multiple shots.

An example: the stage light wasn't even, very bright in the middle while it's relative dark around, the RAW was much easier to process than JPG.

SOOC preview extracted from RAF

from RAF processed in darktable

Very nice. In this particulary photo where exactly is your focus point?

Neven