On Apr 9, 2012, at 11:15 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: > Welcome to the world of reportage photography. 99% of the time that's all > you do and it's good enough for a paycheck. 1% of the time or less you get > something great and that's for the satisfaction. Unfortunately you're not > getting paid.
It's something that I face all of the time, especially if I'm photographing something like a belt test. Sometimes my goal is to go out and get a great shot, no matter how many I miss, sometimes I need to make sure that I don't miss any important shots, no matter how boring the results may be. I've found that with musicians on stage, there's not a lot that you can do with them. I tend to go for crazy composition, either trying to juxtapose them against another musician, or use a stupid long lens and just try to get interesting detail shots. You were there for the music, you heard a great show, and you came back with some excellent souvenir photos of the evening. > > On 4/9/2012 12:22 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: >> I attended a concert last week. It was the first time I've ever had a >> chance (that I knew of) to see Thomas Dolby. He's still putting out albums >> and I still find them fun to listen to. >> >> I got to the venue early enough to score front-row seating (general >> admission). I've got the gear in my bag, batteries charged, I'm ready to go. >> >> The show was great, I had no problems with the lighting... everything went >> wonderfully! >> >> So, I get up the next morning and sort through the images. Yup, a lot are >> out-of-focus, as is to be expected when people are moving around and you're >> shooting at 1/15 of a second with a telephoto lens. I finally boiled down >> to a set of images which capture what I saw and posted a gallery. >> >> Then I looked at it a few times to pick out "a winner" to share with friends >> who were there, and I realized I didn't really care for the lot. What I've >> done is successfully documented that I was at a show, and who was there, and >> what they did - without a single (to my eye) compelling image. >> >> Fascinating. How'd I do that? Almost every time as I'm leaving a show, >> someone will see me buttoning up the bag of gear and ask "did you get any >> good shots?" and my self-deprecating response is usually "I have no idea, >> we'll see if anything looks good tomorrow". But this time I truly think I >> didn't quite succeed. >> >> With that out of the way, if anyone is curious to look - am I full of it, or >> are these just too... "static"? >> >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2012/Thomas_Dolby/index.html >> >> >> -Charles >> >> -- >> Charles Robinson - [email protected] >> Minneapolis, MN >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org >> http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson >> >> > > > -- > Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a > lengthily search. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
