{"id":520,"date":"2014-06-23T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T08:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photosbypassy.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2014-06-23T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T08:30:20","slug":"morgan-evans-june-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photosbypassy.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Evans – June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Evans is a great Australian Country Rocker who is destined for International stardom.<\/p>\n

We were lucky enough to have a break in our schedule when we found out that he was in Melbourne, and the regular in-house photographer at the venue was ill and they needed someone to do photos. What a Lucky Break!<\/p>\n

We first saw Morgan in early 2013 at the Deniliquin Easter Festival and were totally blown away by this fresh original talent.<\/p>\n

It was so good to see him again, and hear all those great original tunes.<\/p>\n

What was very impressive was how much time he gave to his Melbourne Fans at the post show Meet and Greet.<\/p>\n

“Revolver Upstairs” was a great venue to host the show, and the people there are very professional and great to work with.<\/p>\n

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A full Flickr Gallery of Photos can be viewed here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flickr Photo Gallery of Morgan Evans at Revolver Upstairs<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Flickr Gallery of the Meet and Greet Photos can be viewed here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Flickr Photo Gallery of Morgan Evans Melbourne Meet and Greet<\/a><\/p>\n

Further information about Morgan Evans can be found at these Facebook Pages: <\/p>\n

Morgan Evans Music Page<\/a><\/p>\n

Morgan Evans Fans Facebook Page<\/a><\/p>\n

 
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EQUIPMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Camera One:<\/p>\n

Sony Alpha A-77 Camera
\nTamron 17-50mm F2.8
\nSony HVL-F43M Flash
\nGary Fong Gamma Blade Diffuser <\/p>\n

Camera Two: <\/p>\n

Sony Alpha A-55 Camera
\nTamron 24-70mm F2.8<\/p>\n

As this shoot was an important event, I took my travel photographer friend Michael along, and he took photos on the A-55 with the camera set to Auto White Balance, and Auto “SCN” mode.<\/p>\n

The A-55 was also used with the bigger Tamron lens, and it captured some very good images which have made it into the album. <\/p>\n

The A-77 was used for all of the wide angle shots, and People Pictures taken with the flash and diffuser. <\/p>\n

The A-77 was set to ISO’s of 800, 1250, and even up to 1600 for shots that featured both the stage and the crowd. <\/p>\n

All shots were done in full manual mode at Aperture of 2.8 for band photos, and varying apertures up to 5.6 for the group shots using flash.<\/p>\n

Shutter speed was set to 1\/60 through to 1\/125. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately there is a blueish almost Avatar Movie hue in several photos, which I assume is due to me not getting the color “white balance” fully correct. <\/p>\n

I used the A-77 WB setting of “Incandescent”. <\/p>\n

I changed to Incandescent after firing off some test shots with WB set to Auto or AWB. These shots did not look the best, and so I changed the setting Incandescent.<\/p>\n

I tried using “Levels” in Photoshop to adjust the color balance but this did not seem to improve the blueish photos that much. <\/p>\n

Shots taken with the A-77 appeared darker than they really should have been, because the venue seemed to have quite good lighting, especially when you compare to the A-55 shots, which had much better color in them. <\/p>\n

Perhaps the darkness of the shots was due to having the white balance set incorrectly, as the lights were not at the color temperature of incandescent. <\/p>\n

White Balance is something I really need to work on for future events, as this needs to be set up very carefully to get good accurate colors. <\/p>\n

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The previously super reliable Sony Flash decided to malfunction for some unknown reason when I started to take the “Party People” shots. For some reason it just refused to fire off. <\/p>\n

There was a flashing green light in the display, which is an indication that the camera could not focus in the low light inside the venue. Maybe if I had put the ISO up to 1600 to trick the camera this would have made the flash come good.<\/p>\n

I am not sure how I fixed it, but it seemed to be that with a full reboot of camera and flash, and setting the ISO to 1000, and Shutter to 1\/125, everything seemed to suddenly be normal. <\/p>\n

It was great fun shooting Morgan, and hopefully he will be back in Melbourne later this year. <\/p>\n

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