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12 years 11 months ago #52762 by ghunt64
I am curious to know what you do when shooting live music shows? I think I have a pretty good handle on exposure, but I am having trouble dealing with white balance settings. I have to adjust virtually all of my images after the fact in RAW. I have tried different settings for white balance, but have to adjust the image later anyway. I have found myself setting the white balance to auto and living with the extra work.

What do you do? and how is that working for ya?
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12 years 11 months ago #52828 by WillF
If you don't want to adjust the white balance raw, which I can understand, with that many photos it can become a lot of work. Buy yourself a white balance cap. Place it in front of the lens, take a picture, choose the picture as your preset white balance. You must take the picture inside where you plan to take the pictures.

This trick works great for outdoor pictures, so hopefully it will work for indoor shots too. Good luck.
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12 years 11 months ago #53064 by Solstar
I know what you are going through...I shot a place with really weird lighting. I fussed with using a custom WB and still wasn't happy. The reason was that the stage had about 3 different areas with varying colors. I just ended up adjusting the RAW image later. I have shot there several times and now know roughly which areas of the stage need which adjustment which speeds things up a bit. WB is probably the main reason I switched to RAW exclusively since I would sometimes forget to switch off of a flash setting to ambient light etc. Or cheat and convert them all to B&W!
On a related note...since I use older cameras RAW gives me much less noise with high ISO shooting at the shows. www.foto.cr/beto-pelozo#!__en-vivo
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12 years 11 months ago #53315 by Henry Peach
I shoot raw and auto wb, and adjust wb later for almost all of my photos, not just live music. If the lighting doesn't change I can set the wb for all of them at once. If the lighting is changing then I need to asses each photo to see how I want to set wb. I'm not as interested in accuracy to reality as much as I am in what I find aesthetically pleasing.
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5 years 2 months ago #630755 by Rorence
As for live music, my issue is about how to download and play Spotify music on any devices without limitation. We know all Spotify free users can play music online, no right to download and play offline. Fortunately, now you can use Spotify Music Converter to remove DRM protection and convert Spotify to MP3, AAC, etc with zero loss quality. You can check more info on Tuneskit . Wish this tip is helpful to you. 
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