Page 8 of the MAC program: "There is to be no flash of any sort used during this event, except as authorized by the organizers."
Got it... it's to protect the commercial vendor, I guess. Too bad since the lighting meant bad videos as well..
Most of the time YouTube helps a lot with fixing the bad videos, especially if you have a lot of them. Sometimes you end up with weird colors though. I still haven't fixed all of mine.
I wish that was the case, but the original video is always much higher resolution than Youtube, and also you can't change the lighting, just perhaps contrast and exposure. Good lighting is important period...
If your camera and/or camcorder allow you to set the exposure manually, it would really be useful to learn how to use that functionality especially in difficult lighting conditions like MAC during the daytime. You only have so much dynamic range to play with before your photos/videos lose information (shadows or highlights). In conditions like MAC with those windows, you would be able to choose which area you wanted to expose for. For point and shoots in dark ballrooms, it's a good idea to purposely underexpose by 2 stops if you're going for the dark areas and bump it up in a post-processing software.
The issue is that in comparison to the other venue, the lighting was not really very conducive to photography or videos, it's not about the inability to adjust camera settings....
