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I'm heading out to see one of my favorite bands this weekend and have some questions for folks who might know something.
I guess my first question is my gear up to snuff for low light bar-room band photography? I've got a Canon Rebel XTi/400d (1600 ISO max) and the 50mm 1.8 lens along with the standard kit lens. Would this be good enough to get some shots do you think?
Other than that what's proper etiquette in this situation, I've read that it's proper form to get your shots in the first 3 songs and then get out of the way, I really don't want to use the flash since I only have the built in one and I know that the Autofocus Assist makes a ton of tiny flashes before the actual one that would surely piss off the band, so I would go flashless. I know that shooting in RAW might get me a stop or two but I don't really have conversion software, though I suppose the camera came with some maybe. I should probably look into that huh?
Any other tips or warnings. I also worry about bringing my camera to such an environment especially since maybe half of the band's songs are about drinking.
Posted at 9:52PM, 18 July 2007 PDT
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I don't know much about your band-photography questions but you camera should have come with Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP) software which is a pretty good RAW converter (and free!). It works just fine.
Posted 59 months ago.
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 yeah, first 3 songs are usually "photo-safe". I'd recommend to forget all about the flash, ans think creative about light. There are both a lot, to little and poor (as in mono colored hard reds) light. Use that to your advantage, accept that you might not get the front singers face, but silhouettes and shots exposed after the back lights (behind the scene) can be great and capture the mood of the concert.
If security tell people to not photograph, respect that. If not, and you're sober and not using a flash; go photo-crazy! Concert photo is really fun :)
Posted 59 months ago.
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Thanks for the advice both.
mgrat: I shot in RAW+JPG mode for the first maybe quarter of the shots I took. I've yet to convert them, but they did end up much brighter than their jpg counterparts.
Nanaki: I wasn't intending to use a flash. The built in one isn't very good and that is pretty much all I have. Finding a good spot was a little troublesome. The venue had a wall pretty close to the stage cutting it off from most of the rest of the bar and the floor in front of the stage filled up pretty quickly (other times I've seen this band I've been able to get awfully close). I was able to find a spot near the back where someone was standing on a chair near a wall towards the back of the crowd. I figured if he was why not me, so I pulled a chair up to the wall which put my elbows pretty much at the level of the top of a jukebox that I could brace myself against which ended up working pretty well.
You're right about the interesting lighting can happen, burst mode was my friend, I even caught someone else's flash in one of my shots.
If you want to check out the pictures I took they're in this set www.flickr.com/photos/jgarner/sets/72157600954194204/
Posted 59 months ago.
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