It always happens, but sometimes it happens NOTICEABLY.............

[Laurence Cremetti]

What am I talking about?

Mixed event lighting!

Wednesday gig, two cameras. A 7d and a 40D. 40D has 15-85 on it, 7D has 70-200 on it.
Both cameras are armed with 550/580ex flashes, and wound up to ISO 3200 and 1600 respectively. Why?
Because I shoot ambient as best I can, with flash assistance.
It's not usually a big issue for events. Coloured lights produce coloured effects in images and that's that, but when the framing makes the image look fairly "normal" (ie not a catwalk or stage show), it helps to have a fair skin tone.
No problem with the 40d as I was up-close-and-personal, and one light always dominated the image, and was easily correctable. The problem was the 7D with the 70- 200 when used at 200.
Flash assistance was quite effective, but merged with a whole wall of window light, a tungsten rear projection system and old flourescent lighting! What a mess. No gel can fix that, no quick photoshop action either.

How do YOU, dear reader, deal with such a nightmare scenario?

 

[Hamish Gill]

Mono conversion?

care to share a problem image Laurence?

 

[Laurence Cremetti]

No, and yes.

Dont think B&W will quite cut it for the client. I'd personally be quite happy with it though.

Yes, I'll try to remember to post a sample, but right now I'm preparing for an unusual gig, which I'm sending to the papers, called,

"80 Year old birthday girl reaches 180mph"

Yep, got a job at Rockingham racetrack tomorrow!!!

 

[Hamish Gill]

Nice! Sounds fun, Enjoy!!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Love Rockingham - one of the few US style ovals in the UK.

The infield's not bad either - especially for motorcycle photography

Shot some British Super Bikes there, back in the day

 

[Laurence Cremetti]

Sorry I post so little.
Was greatly disapointed by Rockingham, as couldn't get a good angle/distance.
Will post a mixed light image, (as discussed), sooner or later.........

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Did you get any pit or infield access?

I managed to get on the end of the infield straight, as the track turns right, and got some lovely shots with a 300mm plus 2x extender.