I have done this many times.I would be assigned to photograph
something which I know was just to show that the paper or magazine
was there to cover the event. Sometimes the event would lend itself
to great photos, other times not at all.
Sometimes I had to look hard for great photos.. Joe
http://photo.net/photos/pjjdxn
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
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