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my wife is a classical singer, i have on occasion attempted to photograph her while performing with less than stellar results...i think i have the right equipment, Canon Digital Rebel Xt, Canon 70-200 2.8 IS lens and/or a Canon 17-55 2.8 IS lens....i've tried what seems like hundreds of settings, (never with a flash, she hates the distraction), i can sometimes get the color correct but with blur or i can get no blur with a yellow tinge to everything....can you make any suggestions or refer me to some specific guides for these types of  photos?...regards




 

If i have understood it correctly, it looks like that there are two issue here. One is slow shutter speed and another is the white balance. Blur is something related to slow shutter speed or may be sometimes because of the camera shake. Try using faster shutter speed. Bump ISO up if required. Yellowish color are related to the white balance. Generally, getting correct white balance using auto w/b in low light (I assume, you are shooting in low light and auto white balance) is something unexpected. Use manual white balance or apply color correction in post processing. This can be done using either DPP or any other image editing software.

Hope this will help but unless you post photo with EXIF detail, it will be hard to say what's wrong there.

The easiest way to deal with the yellow color cast is to shoot RAW and use DPP to correct the color. If it's low power tungsten lighting, none of the WB settings will be neutral. You'd have to do a custom correction if you don't shoot RAW.

Is the exposure generally correct?  (Check the histogram)  If not you may need to switch to P mode and move the exposure compensation down about 1 or 2 stops.