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EOS Bodies - For Stills / Blown-out Highligts in Stage Lighting

« on: September 21, 2012, 06:42:03 PM »

I have heard people complain about LED lights and excessive blown highlights, but I finally ran into a problem with it this week.  Unfortunately it's on performers' faces.  Here are 2 shots that were perfectly exposed for the subject but pretty much unusable in color because of the blown out faces.  Dropping down the highlights in Lightroom made it look even worse.  Converting to B&W makes it reasonable.

Both pics shot with a 5D3, 70-200 f/2.8II, ISO 3200, 1/100, f4.0, daylight wb.  Straight conversion to jpeg with no other adjustments.