first time shooting live music
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Hi all - last night I was photographing a local band in a pub and I'm really not happy with how the photos turned out.
The lighting was awful and I had hardly any space to move because of the venue and amount of people sat there. Probably the most challenging event I've shot at because of this.
They also had constantly changing lights on stage, some light but mostly dark so I was thrown of with settings.
That and I only had 15 minutes to shoot! They came on 15 minutes late and I had to be gone.
Anyway enough excuses, I'd like some CC on the images, A lot of these are super funky angles, I usually go a lil dutch with live/event stuff if I'm struggling to frame, not sure if they work.
final photo - a pic of the stage from as far back as I could stand without being blocked by speakers or lighting (20mm lens)
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Best tip for shooting bands.
1) Mannual mode. 1/125th of a sec shutter and no slower or youll get blur.
2) iso around 400 - 800 iso. Fix the grain in PS. if its too grainy turn the image to mono.
Wait for the beats when the lights are bright.
Shoot from the hip ( wide angle shots with the camera near the top of the guitar.
No flash! (unless its off camera - Check out strobist.com)
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the kooks
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Kooks frontman
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>>2880156
No Probs.
Definitley check out David Hobby at strobist.com
loads of equipment hacks and also complete courses for free.
Its a must read :-)
>>2880156
lighting 101 is the tutorial bit
