Taipei Lantern Festival Valentine's Day Concert

Prismatic · 15th February 2004

Mouthful thread title, but here's the good stuff. :P
As usual, all taken on Minolta Z1.

AND OH, I dun wish to see any of these pictures anywhere else other than this thread!

Andy Hui

Newcomer, A-Sang

Boyband, Tension

Newcomer from our neighbour next door, Zhang Zhi Cheng

Here's the good stuff, S.H.E!!!

Hebe!

Wai · 15th February 2004

wah...so happening in taiwan, are you going to stay there not coming back anymore?

btw, for the last two pic, may be you should make your sig even bigger and cover part of the singers, yours too easily to be cropped away

hmmm....were you the audience or as offical covering the event?

Prismatic · 15th February 2004

Aiyah, no lah, I just heard about this free concert and decided to go take a look. I just couldn't resist taking out my cam to shoot.... :P

I hope these shots are still okay. Let there be no one saying you can't take proper concert shots with a P&S digicam while shoving in the crowd.
Hahaha.....

Wai · 15th February 2004

Originally Posted by Prismatic

I hope these shots are still okay. Let there be no one saying you can't take proper concert shots with a P&S digicam while in the shoving in the crowd.
Hahaha.....

yes, you have proven it

btw, how close were you from the stage?

Prismatic · 15th February 2004

Originally Posted by Wai

yes, you have proven it

btw, how close were you from the stage?

Around 10m or so... a lot of the shots were taken at 1/100, f3.5 ISO 400.
Focal length is around 380mm or 10x max zoom, so they are not really sharp, but since it's not an assignment, I'm okay with it. :P

Spectrum · 15th February 2004

Any tweaking in colour(like brightness, contrast & so on) after you shot with your Z1. Cause the colour rendition looks really good! Metering looks spot on! Great work!

Prismatic · 15th February 2004

Originally Posted by Spectrum

Any tweaking in colour(like brightness, contrast & so on) with your Z1. Cause the colour rendition looks really good! Metering looks spot on! Great work!

I did a custom white balance while the camera crew was doing it too, hahaha... anyway, Changes I've made are,

Just slight shift towards cyan and blue in the midtones and highlights.
And just an auto-level for the curves.

The image looks sharper than it is because I did an USM after scaling down the picture.

Actually, the output from the camera was already quite good, I mainly corrected the pictures to give them a bit more atmosphere.

Zerstorer · 16th February 2004

Great shots of Andy Hui and Tension.

TME · 13th March 2004

Do I see some purple fringing in the first shot? Especially around the sleeves? Or am I seeing it due to the lighting?

15th February 2004	#1
Prismatic Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: In the void. Posts: 1,215	Taipei Lantern Festival Valentine's Day Concert Mouthful thread title, but here's the good stuff. :P As usual, all taken on Minolta Z1. AND OH, I dun wish to see any of these pictures anywhere else other than this thread! Andy Hui Newcomer, A-Sang Boyband, Tension Newcomer from our neighbour next door, Zhang Zhi Cheng Here's the good stuff, S.H.E!!! Hebe!

15th February 2004	#3
Prismatic Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: In the void. Posts: 1,215	Aiyah, no lah, I just heard about this free concert and decided to go take a look. I just couldn't resist taking out my cam to shoot.... :P I hope these shots are still okay. Let there be no one saying you can't take proper concert shots with a P&S digicam while shoving in the crowd. Hahaha..... Last edited by Prismatic; 15th February 2004 at 07:20 PM.

15th February 2004	#6
Spectrum Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Here Posts: 3,702	Any tweaking in colour(like brightness, contrast & so on) after you shot with your Z1. Cause the colour rendition looks really good! Metering looks spot on! Great work! Last edited by Spectrum; 15th February 2004 at 08:14 PM.

15th February 2004	#2
Wai Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: South Pole with Penguin Posts: 5,185	wah...so happening in taiwan, are you going to stay there not coming back anymore? btw, for the last two pic, may be you should make your sig even bigger and cover part of the singers, yours too easily to be cropped away hmmm....were you the audience or as offical covering the event?

16th February 2004	#8
Zerstorer Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3,610	Great shots of Andy Hui and Tension.

13th March 2004	#9
TME Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Clementi Posts: 6,244	Do I see some purple fringing in the first shot? Especially around the sleeves? Or am I seeing it due to the lighting?