Hey Everybody,

I just wanted to post the follow up to this initial request. I thought you might like to know what happened. I had arranged to rent a full 3 head studio set of lights from Calumet. When I arrived it was pretty clear that there wouldn't be time to set up and tear down the gear as the chorale singers began trickling in a half hour before the concert and the sound recording guy also had to set up his gear directly in front of the stage area. It was also obvious that popping strobes during the performance wouldn't be acceptable either. I decided to make the best of the available light for ambiance and to crank the 40Ds ISO to it's max setting of 1600 knowing that if I shot RAW images I could deal with them later in Photoshop and use Noise Ninja for the graininess. I've done a lot of concert photography so I pretty much knew what to expect. So here are the results which have been extremely well received by the client as "incredibly artistic".

http://picasaweb.google.com/lloydsla...902#slideshowH

Next time, I will set up a couple of small studio modeling lights bounced off of gold umbrellas directly in front of the stage, low and out of sight, and rent a faster L-series lens. The only time I really missed the strobes was for the group shots from the balcony and would probably get them for that.

Thanks for all of your suggestions. As always it was a learning experience :-)