'Darkskies' having just looked at your gallery I can see why you like it. I like clouds, the sun,landscapes and Butterflies too.

It probably does 'womble'. But pubs and getting up for dawn a couple of days after the Longest Day don't make for good horizontals

Something went wrong with the unbrightened ones

The first 2 are at ISO 1600. The second 2 are 800. One of each has been lightened by +10 (+5 really) in Lightroom.

I'm glad to hear from you both about the EV. I didn't completely waste my time

I'll have a go when I get my head round it. Lightroom on auto exposure gave the ISO 800 files +10, if that means anything to you. Although I think that is a glich in the programme. When I turned it down 1 click it said +5

It was an experiment really.(an alcohol fueled experiment)I moved the ISO around 400 to 3200.I turned up the EV to +3( but it seems that would not affect a RAW file). It was a rock band on a small stage and they were trying to put some energy in to it so 1/25 would not have worked IMHO.Noise reduction does slow my machine down, although its not cutting edge technology. I'm just sorting through the 326 of them (is this normal?)mostly very dark, although I am getting something back from them.I'm slightly annoyed by the noise on them, but maybe I was expecting too much.

Thanks Mike-P. I can't see the winky smiley? I didn't want to use flash. Didn't want to draw attention to myself. The band were proper pro's (2 from Barclay James Harvest and 1 from New Model Army) so they might not have minded. They were playing under an assumed name 'Katie and the Twinkles'.

Thanks David. Thanks Puma. Am I right in thinking when you take a RAW DNG any settings you put in the camera make no difference to the RAW image? Even high ISO, whats it called,noise reduction? I took some pics at a pub gig and going through them they all need noise reduction.It was dark. K5.
ISO 1600 are kind of acceptable, but above that there is a lot of work to do.