Taking pictures for the organizers of the event and the salt lake street event
I must say that Collective Soul puts on the best show I’ve ever been to.
And really I haven’t been to a lot of concerts.
I’ve just started because I’ve found I love photographing them.
Ah the 14mm, fun lights and the use of my flash set up in the back to make it really light up. Firing with a pocket wizard.
Made for some fun fan shots throughout the night. Didn’t affect the stage of course.
Allred sang and it was a bit more low key. Just needed to wait for the moments and the expressions.
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So I’ve never done pictures at an after party.
Turns out it’s like a mix between clubbing and an actual concert.
This was an after party for the David Archuleta concert at the E Center
So I suppose it wasn’t so different after all since I’ve done a bunch of concerts now.
However it was a ton darker in this location than usual locations i’ve shot at.
Thanks to the Sams (The promoters) for letting me come party.
Enjoy your pics.
Full Gallery Here
David Osmond
David Osmond
Daniel Archuleta
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To see all pictures Go Here
Then there was Vanilla ICE
And Vanilla Ice’s Creepy clown friend
His cool DJ
They brought in the water and Confetti
My personal favorite of the night was a group called:
Love You Long Time
Concerts are so dark that you pretty much need to constantly adjust and play with lights and stuff.
There’s all sorts of crazy lighting schemes going on and often the band can be drenched in red light or in almost total darkness.
What comes out in pictures is more emotive and artsy stuff than clear crisp pictures.
Almost every picture I like had some kind of colored light shinning in the background, or colored light covering from head to toe.
But concerts are nice because even though you might take 700 shots you don’t have to edit nearly that many because half of them are complete crap and you end up with a mear 300-400 that are bareable and in the end push out 200 that could be likeable because you realize fans really are fanatic and will love almost anything and everything. And that’s mostly who they’re for anyway.
Who knows what other concert photographers are doing, I’ve never looked at another concert photographers pictures a day in my life… but it could be fun do it more often.
My concert tips would be these:
- Have a nice fast camera with great ISO (less grain)
- Get close… preferable front row next to the stage. (Many reasons why most other places aren’t nearly as good… including backstage)
- After you take all your front row pictures try a few other spots towards the end of the show.
- Have a press pass because most places won’t let you take pictures with a nice camera unless you do.
- Edit them to be interesting or artsy. (Like a concert photographer not a photojournalist.)
- Ear plugs… you’ll probably be right next to really big speakers. Besides it’s not like they’ll block the music… just dampen.
- Get close and zoom in.
- Fast Lenses. (1.8 or 2.8 is pretty good)
- Use a flash and set it to low output. (you want the flash to freeze their actions but you want the background colors to come out well.)
- Sometimes don’t use flash and set the shutter speed high.
- If you want good pictures get their early because you really do need to be front row(unless you spent thousands on fast telephoto lenses)
- Get a fast prime lens. (i had a 28mm f/2.8 and a 50mm f/1.8 a 80mm 1.8 would be great and obviously the faster the better)
- Take a ton and then delete a ton. (You’re experimenting at first and you’ll delete a lot of them)
- Even it technically fails you can rescue it as an emotive artsy kinda picture. (meaning think twice before getting rid of all blurry pictures)
- Get tips from A Real Concert Photographer… because i’m not one.
I have a photo gig at a Rock Concert Tonight
How did this happen?
So i have a friend that likes going to concerts. (A couple groups in particular)
I took pictures at one of them (not ever having done it before)
and besides the ear damage I had a great time.
And the pictures Rock! (Pun intended)
It was nice that she talked to the band, introduced me
and then proceeded to link my galleries of the event on fan sites and wikipedia
She then proceeded to get me a press pass for her next favorite band. (Tonight)
So I’m going tonight… it’s gonna be fun to have more access and to have them know who I am before the concert starts.
What I’m saying is that if you have a favorite group and want me to take pictures… you set it up.
If it’s on a weekday that I’m not doing anything I might be interested in coming…
the key here is that you need to talk to them and set things up.
Because I’m too lazy and I don’t get paid for it so I’m not about to start trying. (Not that I would be opposed to money)
Moreso if i just know hundreds or thousands of people get to see and use the pictures and stuff.
(They’ll have my watermark… so it’s good advertizing)
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