I'm going to reshoot the concert from which I posted two pictures last week. While I was happy with many of the results, there were others that had a yellow hugh. I'm using a D90 with auto white balance. I'm assuming these are standard show lights.
Can anyone suggest if changing the white balance to something other auto would produce better results? Examples can be found at :
It's one of the most readily demonstrable benefits of shooting in RAW, is post-shoot white balance tinkering. Then, you never need worry about it, ever.
I would say keep it in auto since the lighting changes so fast at a concert. Some of the photos on your link are bluish so you would want tungsten, but some are yellowish, so you would want fluorescent. Tough situation to try to do manually, IMO....definitely lean on post-process WB correction if necessary. Good luck!
@bobg Raw is great, but I may be going out on a limb here, but isnt it just part of the concert having coloured lights and its true to the documentary? From my experience most concerts change light colours a lot and in seconds (and looking at your photos you have that too).
I also would keep it on auto WB because sometimes light sources are mixed and quite often there is a little white light mixed up with the colour anyhow, giving some fab effects.
Aaaaand my personal opinion is never use flash at a concert! Its annoying for the artist (and rarely allowed anyway) and just doesnt add to the picture. I only ever used flash at one concert because it was at a small venue of a new-ish band and I just couldnt get an image of any use as the light was so low, and the pics are my most hated with my band photos'. There is no 'soul' to them.
I think that not having them perfect works better? Just an example - I shot these all with auto WB using available light just as is (sorry for quality, pulled off my old myspace account when I loaded them up small - the originals are on disk).
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I also would keep it on auto WB because sometimes light sources are mixed and quite often there is a little white light mixed up with the colour anyhow, giving some fab effects.
Aaaaand my personal opinion is never use flash at a concert! Its annoying for the artist (and rarely allowed anyway) and just doesnt add to the picture. I only ever used flash at one concert because it was at a small venue of a new-ish band and I just couldnt get an image of any use as the light was so low, and the pics are my most hated with my band photos'. There is no 'soul' to them.
I think that not having them perfect works better? Just an example - I shot these all with auto WB using available light just as is (sorry for quality, pulled off my old myspace account when I loaded them up small - the originals are on disk).