These are very impressive. Don't you do anything poorly? -----Original Message----- From: Tanya Mayer Photography <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mar 10, 2004 5:16 PM To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fairygirl's first attempt at concert pix...
So I went to a concert last night with singer Shannon Noll (was runner up on Australian Idol). BIIIIIIIIIG news in our sleep little country hicksville. Over 5000 people attended the concert, that is like double the population of my entire town! Anyways, had some fun trying my hand at concert pix. Was extremely difficult though as all were handheld and I was in the middle of the mosh pit, so you can imagine the problems I faced! And they kept spraying the damn crowd with water (it was BLOODY hot in that there pit!), but I spent half the night trying to protect my camera from the fire hose! Anyways, all shots taken on the *ist D with Tamron 28-200mm f4-5.6 Asph lens at between 135mm and 200mm. All handheld at f5.6 and usually around 1/8 and sometimes up to 1/20 if I was lucky. All shot with NR on at ISO 1600. Actually, come to think of it, I reckon I did pretty well to get even a few in focus with those settings. My arm muscles must be building up! Word of advice - never try to take sharp pics in a mosh pit with a long zoom lens. It ain't pretty lemme tell you! There will be quite a few drunken concert goers with bumps on their drunken heads today as a result of them jumping into my camera (I know, I know, it is a public liability nightmare, but I figure they were mostly too drunk to remember and besides, it WAS a mosh pit - most people EXPECT to get bashed on the head with something! lol)... Anyways, boy did my reflexes get good last night as I tried to shoot quickly between crowd crushes! Here's a few of the better shots, the black blurry bits in the foreground of some shots are people's heads! It does pay to be that bit taller at times. I had some poor lady who was like 4ft standing next to me and whinging all night about how she was shorter than most of the 12 year olds there and could see less than them cause she didn't have the energy to be jumping around like a maniac to see over the heads...! lol. These two are my favourites: http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/pages/ShannonNoll11.html http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/pages/ShannonNoll09.html And here are the rest of them.... http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/index.html tan.
