High ISO – GREAT when you need it!

Had the pleasure of photographing  a band called Double Back and Urban, playing at Greenfields last Friday night.

It was definitely an exercise in full-manual shooting with constant change of exposure due to the ever-changing light.   The ISO for all shots taken was 1250.  This high ISO allowed me to move and handhold my camera as well as stop action (at times) and get a fairly decent sharp shot.  Metering was spot metering, which in turn fades out the bg to mostly black and picks up only the light either in their face or on stage.  I was usually 2 stops underexposed (again for speed) which also helped black out the bg. 

I took almost 900 shots and changed the exposure at least 200 times.  

Lenses used – Canon 16-35mm

                           Canon 50mm

                           Canon 70-200mm

All were set around f/5.6 or lower.

BTW – you  might recognize one of these guysJ

All shots are straight out of camera – no post processing.  Oh and you might recognize one of these guys:-)