Live band photo techniques
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- mg33
Anyone have any interesting ways of shooting live band photos? I've done some for friends and will be doing some more, and just wondering if anyone has any cool techniques you use, or examples of them.
I'm definitely looking for actual photo techniques, not post-processing stuff.
- aldebaran0
pop and drag
- bored2death0
fish-eye from in the crowd
- UKV0
This guy does some cool stuff with 3d panos, and he shot some music events for me recently: http://www.bohonus.com/galleries…
- rascuache0
I shot some stuff at a small festival recently. Whacked the ISO up, spot metered to a highlight to get an exposure value and based my shots off that, tweaking maybe up to a stop either way where necessary.
If the lighting is good and there's smoke you should get some nice contrasty shots. Good for silhouettes too. Most of these are very lightly processed, maybe just a bit of contrast added.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tye…
Please excuse the wanky watermark. Last time I took shots at a gig, they ended up in the newspaper without credit. Also managed not to have the right font activated when I exported the second batch.
- pizzafire0
you might get some inspiration/ideas here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dre…
- colin_s0
i usually base it off the band and the venue. the same styles for big venue pop shows don't work in basement punk shows.
i usually shoot punk shows so i'm a big fan of no flash, high iso, black and white with a lot of blur and motion and very little in focus. keeps the energy of the show alive.
- BH260
Old School Tina Turner- Strobe Lights - courtesy of Bob Gruen.
- Laurent0
Maybe that will help you too.
Rarely used a flash. Nightshot on a rather old but good Sony Cybershot 828.
- ********0
here you go...
- 1. avoid flash 2. shoot with prime glass 3. post is your friend********
- 1. avoid flash 2. shoot with prime glass 3. post is your friend
- ok_not_ok0
Just do it!
- ApeRobot0
This guy rock,name is Kmeron http://www.flickr.com/photos/frf…
- by "sneaking" in his camera deprives people of their rightful/earned income - and out of focus, too********
- accredited photographer.ApeRobot
- – adumbratesl: What are you talking about?ApeRobot
- "A French, music lover, who is such a fan that he used to sneak his camera in gigs and manages to take some pics while in the middle of the pit!"********
- from his own website...********
- by "sneaking" in his camera deprives people of their rightful/earned income - and out of focus, too
- Morning_star0
^^ What they said.
a. No flash
b. Quality prime lens
c. Get in the mix and enjoy.
Examples of stuff i've done for friends here > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fox…
- obsolete0
these links are really cool
the same photographer.... but really cool live pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joa…
- mg330
Thanks everyone. I'll take a look. Funny enough I never even bought a Flash for my D90. It's never really been my thing and I've been satisfied whenever I used the camera flash if that's all I had.
I do have a Nikon 50mm f1.8, and a Tamron 17-50 f2.8.
Have to say though, one of my favorite pictures I've taken was with instagram on my iphone, of the singer for the Horrors a few weeks ago:
Instagram works pretty well for this kind of stuff.
