On Sunday 09 January 2005 02:12, frank theriault wrote: > BTW, I agree with your comments WRT the difficulty in shooting bands. > Lighting mostly sucks, and sometimes one simply can't use a flash (or > doesn't want to).
Lighting's a funny thing. In situations like this, I almost don't mind the killer contrast range (like your b&w concert shots), because it lets me pretend that the light wasn't as bad as it really was. I don't know if I made any sense there. Curiously, for those, what film were you using? Tri-X at 1600? You probably had much nicer light than my local bar (where I do most of my snapping) does.... a couple of tungsten lights (when they work) and a discoball is about it. By memory, it's 1/30th or thereabouts at f/1.4 if I'm using Tri-X at 1600...nearly impossible to get decent photos while simultaneously dancing. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2225272 I have used flash before, reasonably successfully, I think, anyway: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2225294 [gee. I gotta put new stuff on the photo.net gallery] Concert photography is great fun, though. It certainly lets me meet interesting people, like this fellow, who somehow got it into his head that I was with Rolling Stone http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2225468 And it (usually) leaves me sober at the end of the night. With both hands on the camera, it's pretty tough to hold a beer at the same time--although I have managed it from time to time. -Luigi
