Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
This is an ongoing review of the GXR 50mm unit. I'm using the camera under real life circumstances. So here the camera is handheld in row H of the performance hall. This allows coverage of much of the stage. The musicians, except when the largest group are taking a bow, occupy only the middle 1/3 of the sensor. So this is just about 1.5 to 3 MP! Of course, if one could move closer for the times when one would like to fill the screen, then the pictures would by 3-4 times better. So this is a tough test for a camera!
In continuation of my exploration of ways to freely shoot during classical music performances, I have used the rather exceptional GXR's stealth behavior, (virtually silent shutter), handheld, (we'll discuss that later), from the center of the performance hall. The occasion was the April 11th Performance of The Colburn School Chamber Music Society. With a packed house and a classical music savvy audience, any shutter sound is without question forbidden,
I have already described some of this work before and showed how the JPG's straight out of the camera a very pleasing and well color corrected from the overhead tungsten light, but that processing from RAW gives a far better result under these harsh conditions of heavy shadows and over-bright highlights.
Here I show results from processing RAW, (DNG), files via Capture One and then fusing two images processed for highlights and shadows by masking one selectively. I hope you like the results.
Conservatory students Francesca dePasquale (violin) and Jeremy Berry (viola) performed Klein's String Trio with Colburn faculty Ronald Leonard (cello).
Asher Kelman: Live Performance Picture GXR Handheld ISO 400 -1.0 EV, f 3.5,1/84 sec Aperture Priority No Flash
Guest Artists Movses Pogossian, (far left), and LA Opera's Domingo-Thornton Young Artists Erica Brookhyser, soprano, perform Zemlinksy's
Maiblumen Blühten überall with Conservatory students (l to r) Saschka Haberl, Sarah Harball, Matthew Maffett, Mindy Park, & Benjamin Lash.
Asher Kelman: Live Performance Picture GXR Handheld ISO 400 -1.0 EV, f 3.5,1/1/133 sec Aperture Priority No Flash
Conservatory students (l to r) Kendra James, Qian Dai, and José Gonzales perform 3 Songs after Rimbaud by Krása
with LA Opera's Domingo-Thornton Young Artists José Adán Perez (far right).
Asher Kelman: Live Performance Picture GXR Handheld ISO 400 -1.0 EV, f 3.5,1/1/133 sec Aperture Priority No Flash
In continuation of my exploration of ways to freely shoot during classical music performances, I have used the rather exceptional GXR's stealth behavior, (virtually silent shutter), handheld, (we'll discuss that later), from the center of the performance hall. The occasion was the April 11th Performance of The Colburn School Chamber Music Society. With a packed house and a classical music savvy audience, any shutter sound is without question forbidden,
I have already described some of this work before and showed how the JPG's straight out of the camera a very pleasing and well color corrected from the overhead tungsten light, but that processing from RAW gives a far better result under these harsh conditions of heavy shadows and over-bright highlights.
Here I show results from processing RAW, (DNG), files via Capture One and then fusing two images processed for highlights and shadows by masking one selectively. I hope you like the results.
Conservatory students Francesca dePasquale (violin) and Jeremy Berry (viola) performed Klein's String Trio with Colburn faculty Ronald Leonard (cello).
Asher Kelman: Live Performance Picture GXR Handheld ISO 400 -1.0 EV, f 3.5,1/84 sec Aperture Priority No Flash
Guest Artists Movses Pogossian, (far left), and LA Opera's Domingo-Thornton Young Artists Erica Brookhyser, soprano, perform Zemlinksy's
Maiblumen Blühten überall with Conservatory students (l to r) Saschka Haberl, Sarah Harball, Matthew Maffett, Mindy Park, & Benjamin Lash.
Asher Kelman: Live Performance Picture GXR Handheld ISO 400 -1.0 EV, f 3.5,1/1/133 sec Aperture Priority No Flash
Conservatory students (l to r) Kendra James, Qian Dai, and José Gonzales perform 3 Songs after Rimbaud by Krása
with LA Opera's Domingo-Thornton Young Artists José Adán Perez (far right).
Asher Kelman: Live Performance Picture GXR Handheld ISO 400 -1.0 EV, f 3.5,1/1/133 sec Aperture Priority No Flash
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