Bad lighting and Bluegrass music

[Bill M]

Went and watched my son play with group of friends Friday night at Hickory Hollow BBQ on Heights Blvd in Houston. The banjo player is a 3 time Texas state champion and the guitar player a 1 time champion. I carried my Oly E-520 and the ZD 35-100. There was track lighting aiming at the bandstand, red,yellow and blue. There was also two fluorescent bulb fixtures with one directly over the main mic. I used a incandescent WB setting but as you can see the fluor stood out. One thing I did was pull back on the saturation. Anybody ever shoot lighting situations like this? Thanks for looking. For more of these see my signature below.

[Atfulldraw]

tough conditions, Bill.

Mine wouldn't look nearly as good as yours!

[Bill M]

It was tough and thanks Rod. Most musicians don't like flashes going off. I could have used one here but I wanted to practice!

[Shane]

Looks like you did fine, Bill. This is probably a situation where an ExpoDisc or some other way of getting a custom WB setting would really pay off. You can do it in post processing with the eye dropper WB tool and get pretty good too. I don't know how much better you could have gotten it with either method though. Looks great as-is.

[Bill M]

Thanks Shane. Matt's playing with these guys pretty often now. Their fiddle player works shift work and is on a long shutdown. He can't make all the gigs so Matt is having a good time freelancing since his group isn't doing much right now.

[Randy]

Nice shots Mr. Morris.

[Bill M]

Thank you Randy!

[WyoBull]

Bill,
Nice shots, especially for not doing a lot of creative stuff like an ExposDisc as Shane mentioned or post processing. This will be a great opportunity to practice as you say on a friendly group of players. As you do more, let us know what kind of changes you are making in your camera settings etc. as we are definitely interested.

[Bill M]

Thanks Scott and will do.

[Bluesman]

I'd say it was 50/50 on the lighting. I like em.