YouDontNeedToKnowButItsNoëlle
Le 16/03/14 15:36, David Taylor a écrit :

David Taylor
Yes, on some cameras I have the default exposure at -1/3 stop. I rarely find white-balance to be an issue, but I'm not often taking stage pictures (and I can appreciate the need for extra margin due to the greater dynamic range). I did take this one in Argentina:

http://www.satsignal.eu/Hols/2009/Antarctica/2009-01-22-0051-21-size.jpg

but there were so many lighting effects that I wouldn't want to say whether the WB is "right" or not.

YouDontNeedToKnowButItsNoëlle
I think it is "right". It has the colors of the show. But when the light is very dim, the dimmed stage spots give a reddish color that is not due to gels. The most terrible light effect I had was with a oriental music show with lot of changing colored lights, and overabundance of "black light". The "black light" totally confused the sensor and the results were yuk...

As that was ISO 1600 on a Nikon D60,

David Taylor
there was some post-processing (such as noise reduction in PaintShop Pro 10). 1/30s, f/6.3 Nikon 18-200 mm at 200 mm.

YouDontNeedToKnowButItsNoëlle
When I can be at 2000 iso, I consider that "plenty light" and I am very happy with it. http://th08.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2013/147/f/a/dsc3909_by_missumlaut-d66s3ts.jpg (not post-prod beside reduction and a slight ajustement of color balance) There, it was "plenty light",not to much light contrast,enough color contrast, and 2000 iso are good enough to allow every margin I need. Piece of cake ! That is not usual. More often, I use 3200 or 4000 iso...Even with a D700, that is not much, specially when most of the stage is dark areas. I dont stop down a lot, use my 70-200 2,8 (no VR) at 3,5 or 2,8. My own stability with this heavy lens does not allow me to go much under 1/160 s : and usually, people on the stage move as well ! Depends of the show. I am almost always a bit too short of 3-4 IL to make confortable choices.

Noëlle Adam