I found a nice carnival over the weekend and even a show! I didn't go on any rides, but I did shoot some and got to see Jack's Mannequin. Does anyone have any tips on shooting at a show? Especially to counteract the shortness problem... The only good shots I got were of the backs of people's heads.
-Lisa
hey, I shot at a lot of shows a while back, I always found 2 types of venues, ones that had 0 lighting, or ones that had great lighting.
ReplyDeleteIf you run in to the no lighting, put a flash on, set it to rear curtain sync and use a slow shutter speed, (and gel the flash with a CTO [tungsten] gel) that's the tried and true stereotypical concert shots
the other venue would have great lighting, here you use the opposite, big aperture, high iso and use those lights to your advantage, i'd personally dial in tungsten WB as the lights usually have all kinds of gels that stay their true color when you WB for the underlying tungsten light (approx. tungsten of course)
anyways, as far as the shortness, just walk up to the front. seriously. If you have a camera with a big lens and flash attached most anyone (security guards included) will let you walk right up and shoot from the front or behind the barriers so to speak, at least for a song. get up there and shoot as much as you can in that song or two. also beware, you're now in the face of the band, and they may fall on your or drop stuff etc. I almost got nailed with a large monitor speaker once when a singer slipped.
Good ideas - remember when you shoot RAW which we ALWAYS do - you can control the WB in Lr and CR. then you can dial in a variety of color temp effects,,,,
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