I have finally uploaded the pictures that I took at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater of the Breaking Benjamin concert to my gallery. I once again used a Canon 20D with a Canon 70-200mm F2.8L IS USM lens, but this time I used a Canon 50mm F1.4 on my Canon Rebel XT. Having the F1.4 allowed me to maintain a fast shutter speed, mostly 1/320s, while shooting at 800 ISO, compared to 1600 ISO on the F2.8 lens. I was unable to shoot from behind the barricade like last time, so I had to shoot from the pit, which was not easy. I had to really watch the equipment to protect it and also so I did not hit anyone with it.
Keep reading to see some of my favorite images and what went into processing the images.
All files were shot RAW only and processed by me in Adobe Bridge CS3. The files were then taken into Photoshop CS3 for additional tweaking. For example, I had to manually remove the shine on Ben’s head on quite a few images because the image was blown out and there was no detail. I also purchased Noise Ninja to help remove some of the noise in the images.
Here are some of my favorites:
Please have a look in the gallery to see the rest of the images. Let me know what you think.
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[...] Yesterday I went to Pointfest with some friends and had a great time. We got there a little before 4. I picked up my 4 tickets and 2 photo passes and we headed in. Thanks go out to Dave and Freddie for once again getting me hooked up with the tickets and passes. This time I was able to shoot from in front of the barricade instead of from the pit, which was not an easy thing to do. I am working on getting the pictures up from Pointfest as fast as I can. I used the same equipment as the last Breaking Benjamin show. [...]
[...] up! As I mentioned in my review, the equipment I used is in the following post. Almost all of the images are just a straight processed RAW file with little or no Photoshop. I [...]