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Took my x100t to the U2 tour opener in Vancouver, BC and arrived in GA line 3 days early Only edited a few shots yet but so far happy with the results. https://flickr.com/photos/65618476@N00/sets/72157652429142370 Bonus shot of (presumably) the livenation photog compensating. #ifyouneeda500mmlensforaconcertyouredoingitwrong
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MMD3 posted:Took my x100t to the U2 tour opener in Vancouver, BC and arrived in GA line 3 days early if you need a 500mm lens for a stadium concert you've probably been accurately warned beforehand which is a goddamn blessing. turned up to Foo Fighters earlier this year after being told there was a pit, only to be told it was actually sound desk once we rocked up. everyone (even the newspaper photographers who have access to every single lens ever it seems like) had a 70-200 and maybe a crop body if they were lucky. so hosed.
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This guy had to have been with production, he was at the front of the stage basically and was there the entire show with an assistant wrangling his omghuge lens. He was primarily using the 500mm for the drummer at the back of the stage and when he band went out on the ramp/b-stage at the other end of he venue. But rather than having an assistant you'd think they could have just had a second shooter at the b-stage with better results if you have that kind of access. I, Butthole posted:if you need a 500mm lens for a stadium concert you've probably been accurately warned beforehand which is a goddamn blessing.
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My brother has this new folk band thing going and asked me to take some photos. I'm not much of a photographer, my zoom lens doesn't focus anymore and I haven't logged in to my Flickr account for so long that Yahoo deactivated it and told me to get a new one, but I went with what I had - which is a 500D and a 50mm/1.8 - and I guess some of the photos turned out... decent? My brother seems to be happy with them at least.    (images are clickable) Any protips/critique appreciated. Processing basically consisted of loving a bit with the light sliders in Lightroom (mostly dragging blacks wayyy down so the background sorta goes away) and not much else. I made black-and-white versions of some of pics too because of the weird red light, but judging by this thread there are tricks you can pull off with color editing to make that kinda stuff less of an issue? TheFluff fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 17, 2015 |
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I uploaded more of the shots from the first night of U2 shows... I was against the front stage for these. For the second night I went to the b-stage and am very glad I did. This is the band that got me into concert photography in the first place. The first time I shot them in 2001 I snuck a Nikon EM w/ a light leak into their tour opener in Miami. The second time I shot them I had the same camera but I managed to line up a photo pass, unfortunately I came woefully unprepared with some 200ASA film and the rollingstone photographer took pity on me prior to the show starting and gave me a few rolls of his Fuji NPZ800 and told me to pull it to 640. I haven't shot them with a DSLR since then and have only bothered taking point and shoots into their shows since then. The x100t performed way better than I could have hoped... there was a little bit of AF hunting at times but it typically locked in pretty quickly. Spot metering worked it's magic and I left it set at f/2.0 1/125th for the most part stopped down -1/3 to -2/3 so the faces wouldn't be blown out with the strong spots.        Bonus shot of Edge's guitar tech's expression when Edge disappeared accidentally falling off the ramp as they were exiting. 
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TheFluff posted:My brother has this new folk band thing going and asked me to take some photos. I'm not much of a photographer, my zoom lens doesn't focus anymore and I haven't logged in to my Flickr account for so long that Yahoo deactivated it and told me to get a new one, but I went with what I had - which is a 500D and a 50mm/1.8 - and I guess some of the photos turned out... decent? My brother seems to be happy with them at least. Look pretty good, I'd say if anything they're a little underexposed (particularly the 3rd) and the composition feels a little cramped but that's just what happens when you're shooting primes sometimes. If you'd had the room maybe a step back (assuming these are uncropped) would have given them some more breathing room. First one you could crop out the stray stuff on the right of the frame like the white line and hand.
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MMD3 posted:Look pretty good, I'd say if anything they're a little underexposed (particularly the 3rd) and the composition feels a little cramped but that's just what happens when you're shooting primes sometimes. If you'd had the room maybe a step back (assuming these are uncropped) would have given them some more breathing room. First one you could crop out the stray stuff on the right of the frame like the white line and hand. Thanks a lot for the feedback! I think I pretty consistently underexposed the entire set, actually.  Some of the shots are cropped actually but I think I'm pretty bad at composition so I'm not sure I actually made it better. Distracting edge details is also a thing I tend to forget about. Back to Lightroom with this in mind it is, and again thanks for the tips!Those U2 photos of yours are some goddamned amazing stuff, by the way. TheFluff fucked around with this message at 10:07 on May 17, 2015 |
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Getting into concert photography myself recently, after a couple of tries with a friend's band which taught me a lot and one project this year where I accompanied a local big band on a theater play they were putting on. I count the final performance as a concert too, as they played music themselves throughout the play. This month I did a couple more, for Chameleons Vox and for another band called Os Azeitonas. Obviously I've got a long way to go but I feel like I'm making progress. Any feedback would be welcome of course. Chameleons Vox: We Are All Chameleons Farewell Tour by Nuno Conceição, on Flickr  Chameleons Vox: We Are All Chameleons Farewell Tour by Nuno Conceição, on Flickr  Os Azeitonas, Caldas da Rainha, 2015/05/14 by Nuno Conceição, on Flickr  Os Azeitonas, Caldas da Rainha, 2015/05/14 by Nuno Conceição, on Flickr Also yeah, those U2 photos? pretty great. Congratulations. Maverique fucked around with this message at 01:03 on May 19, 2015 |
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finally got around to uploading my U2 pics from the 2nd night of the tour... will be heading down to LA next week to see them again as well. here's night two from the B-stage, night one was the main stage: https://www.flickr.com/photos/justinkent/sets/72157652429142370           the second night Edge DIDNT fall off the stage... he gave me a thumbs-up though right where he fell off the first night. 
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Agreed, that Bono shot is MONEY. Fantastic. Nothing too exciting on my end for bands lately, I did shoot a friends gig tonight. I'm happy with this one.  Rachel Assil by David Franco, on Flickr
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so I went to a few more U2 shows, most importantly though, one at the Roxy on Sunset. I never was much for watermarks but decided before I start shopping these ones around I should put a mark on them. hoping to put them all up somewhere soon but for now I'm keeping a lot of them back in the hopes of getting them to some media outlets. gah, sorry for table breaking, I forgot how messed up attaching images is.
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somnambulist posted:Agreed, that Bono shot is MONEY. Given how much I oversharpen this is the pot calling the kettle black but there's some real artifacting from the sharpen all over on this one, especially around the hands, face, and curtain. Went and saw two grindcore/punk/metal (gently caress genres) bands who are summarily excellent, High Tension and King Parrot.   (lit by a phone flash so filing this under "happy accident") 
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If Justin's wondering, I haven't commented on his U2 photos yet because life has been crazy and between work and spending a week on a remote island, I haven't had a chance to see his photos on anything other than my OG iPhone 4, which has a strange way of making awful photos look okay. That and I did type out a long reply to his message and his mailbox was full. However, from what I can see of them, they look great and I wish work had been kind enough to unlock the ball and chain on my leg to allow me to catch up with him much as he did for me when I went to Portland at that Bahamas show. Also, one of the cruel ironies in life is that the better your gear gets as you can afford it, the fewer your opportunities get to actually use it, so learn to make the most of what you already have and run with it, kids.
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HPL posted:If Justin's wondering, I haven't commented on his U2 photos yet because life has been crazy and between work and spending a week on a remote island, I haven't had a chance to see his photos on anything other than my OG iPhone 4, which has a strange way of making awful photos look okay. That and I did type out a long reply to his message and his mailbox was full. However, from what I can see of them, they look great and I wish work had been kind enough to unlock the ball and chain on my leg to allow me to catch up with him much as he did for me when I went to Portland at that Bahamas show. Hey no worries man! I figured you were busy, and I was pretty much either standing in a GA line or sleeping in a noisy hostel the entire time I was in Vancouver anyways so it's not like I would have been great company. My inbox should be cleaned out now, really frustrating how many messages get lost to full inboxes on here. So, I came back from LA the other day and I've edited all of my photos from the Roxy show on Sunset. I have some shots that are my personal favorites of all time and there is some real historical significance to this particular show. It's the first show U2 has played in a venue this small in probably 20-30 years. It is the smallest venue they have ever played in LA, when they first played LA in (i believe) 1980 the venue they played at the time was already about twice the size of the Roxy. As far as I know there were only maybe 3 other photographers in the venue taking photos professionally. One of them was standing directly beside me and he was the band's friend, director/photographer Sam Jones. The other two that I have seen photos from were a Getty photographer and a KROQ photographer both standing at the back of the venue. After the show I walked into VIP (security looking the other way) and talked to Judd Apatow, Aaron Paul, Courtney Love, etc. Colin Farrell, Kate Hudson, and Jimmy Iovine were all just a few feet away, literally rubbing elbows with random celebs in attendance. I called Courtney Love out on not knowing what part of Portland she should be hanging out in. Judd Apatow complimented me on my camera and I showed him some pics briefly and he said they looked great. Really just a very surreal night. I know Sean Penn, Kevin Smith, Jack Nicholson, and plenty of others were in attendance as well. Aaron Paul was actually watching from in the crowd rather than the VIP section, apparently he's a big U2 fan, he was also really cool about taking selfies with fans it seemed. Here's a video from the show that someone else took, at 0:15 you can see my camera right in front of Bono. from 1:40-2:10 I'm holding Bono up, and at 2:50 you can see Bono's Ian Curtis dance (definitely a tribute, he sings parts of Joy Division songs at their live shows). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3en2hCD3I back of my head in this video from 2:55-3:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk03GNX73wo Here are a few of my shots, let me know if the sharing doesn't show up, I made the album private but I believe the embed code still makes it viewable.           
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Holy hell is Bono ever short
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BANME.sh posted:Holy hell is Bono ever short But his money tall
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I really don't want to follow up after those, this is my first band shoot this year and the venue and lighting was crap as usual but for once my old sigma 1.4 actually decided to focus. Dry Dry River by bang3rachi, on Flickr  Dry Dry River by bang3rachi, on Flickr  Dry Dry River by bang3rachi, on Flickr  Dry Dry River by bang3rachi, on Flickr  Dry Dry River by bang3rachi, on Flickr
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I got ahold of some rollingstone contact info and sent off a pdf contact sheet of my selects from the roxy. An hour later I had an email from a different editor asking me to share low res shots with them for further review. Fingers crossed they see something they like.
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I went to Bonnaroo this past weekend with my X100S. While I didn't get great shots of any acts, I took a bunch of portraits of festival attendees. Here are some of my favorites, and an album link at the end. Untitled by David Shen, on Flickr  Untitled by David Shen, on Flickr  Untitled by David Shen, on Flickr  Untitled by David Shen, on Flickr Link to the album: https://flic.kr/s/aHskegdDuX
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These are awesome, great job! festival portraiture can be pretty rad, Bonaroo has always been one I wish I would've attended back when.
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MMD3 posted:These are awesome, great job! Thanks! This was my 3rd 'Roo, and my first with a camera on me. Having a little mirrorless (X100S) was extremely fun, didn't get in the way of having a good time. Just threw it in my backpack if things started getting hairy/wet/less sober.
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I posted this in the mirrorless thread but forgot to post it here:
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I've been having fun shooting with an old Sigma 15mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. I've found that it's a somewhat subtle fisheye in that it does what fisheye lenses do, but somehow it's more subtle in that unless there's blatant cues like a straight line near the edge of the frame, sometimes it slips right by you that it's a fisheye photo. I find the perspective more pleasing than a rectilinear ultrawide because the barrel distortion is not as jarring as how rectilinear ultrawides stretch the image so much towards the edges of the frame. The Sigma gives lots of room in the center of the lens before it starts distorting wildly at the edges. If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive wide FOV lens, you could do a lot worse. I got a good deal on mine because it was in OM mount, which is kind of an oddball mount in this day and age, but it's what I use with my A7S since I am a fan of old Olympus lenses. I've found that while f/2.8 is doable, f/4 is a good balance between overall sharpness and low light capability. Of course it helps when you're using the A7S and ISO isn't so much of a factor. f/4 and f/5.6 are fun because the lens becomes virtually focus-free so you set it and forget it and you can get all sorts of great on-the-fly shots.  
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It's been a quiet few months for me and I'm about to get back into the swing of things with a 3 day camping festival, joy of joys. On the other hand, I finally get the see Blur and Spiritualized, so I'm relatively hyped. I'm also taking an Olympus Trip and some low speed colour film to give it a red hot go for mainly candid stuff rather than bands, but given that it's in a huge sunny amphitheatre it might end up working out alright. From the last show I shot:   - when you get thrown around in the mostpit so hard you don't realise you got shifted to "bulb" mode on your backup body and it turns out kinda alright I guess?
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Got some more of a secret show before the festival. Apparently the site is a mudbath, so nothing's changed. The Grates and the Smith Street Band played a sub-300 capacity venue - good times.   
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 Father John Misty by Glenn Nielson, on Flickr Father John Misty by Glenn Nielson, on FlickrI felt bad shoving my way to the front of the stage to get these shots. So I decided to scoot my way back, and he walked right up to the PA closest to me in that second photo to woo the crowd. Big ol' missed opportunity there  Also pixel peeping will reveal horrid scanning artifacts so just dont do it.
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HPL posted:I've been having fun shooting with an old Sigma 15mm f/2.8 fisheye lens. I've found that it's a somewhat subtle fisheye in that it does what fisheye lenses do, but somehow it's more subtle in that unless there's blatant cues like a straight line near the edge of the frame, sometimes it slips right by you that it's a fisheye photo. I find the perspective more pleasing than a rectilinear ultrawide because the barrel distortion is not as jarring as how rectilinear ultrawides stretch the image so much towards the edges of the frame. The Sigma gives lots of room in the center of the lens before it starts distorting wildly at the edges. If you're looking for a relatively inexpensive wide FOV lens, you could do a lot worse. I got a good deal on mine because it was in OM mount, which is kind of an oddball mount in this day and age, but it's what I use with my A7S since I am a fan of old Olympus lenses. I've found that while f/2.8 is doable, f/4 is a good balance between overall sharpness and low light capability. Of course it helps when you're using the A7S and ISO isn't so much of a factor. f/4 and f/5.6 are fun because the lens becomes virtually focus-free so you set it and forget it and you can get all sorts of great on-the-fly shots. I'm pretty surprised we've never run into each other since we apparently run in the same circles. I'll have to keep an eye out for a dude with an A7S from now on.
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As an aside, I've found that one benefit of switching to mirrorless cameras for concert photography is that you don't have to wildly contort yourself to get shots like you do with a DSLR because your head doesn't have to be attached to the camera. I can go up high, down low, around the side, whatever and still get decent shots. This may not sound important when you're young and spry, but when you get a little older and the knees don't have the stamina that they used to, being able to get low angle shots without crouching down or kneeling is money. Or if I'm at a shooting position where there's a stage monitor in the way, I can reach forward with the camera in one hand and shoot around the monitor as opposed to lunging forward with my entire upper body. Also, as a courtesy note to other photographers, please either get a battery grip or learn to shoot with the camera grip down when shooting vertical. It's very annoying as a concertgoer to have a photographer on your left waving their elbow around in your face. As an added benefit, it'll help protect your ribs if there's a rough mosh pit as opposed to leaving them wide open when you chicken wing your portrait-orientation shots.
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Okay, so I've been getting quite a few requests for me to sell my photo book I made via Blurb of U2's show at the Roxy. The on demand printing cost is pretty high and wouldn't make any sense for resale though so I'm thinking of crowdfunding a larger print run so I can ensure a minimum order of say 100 books before I commit to printing, largely just to keep the cost down for the people asking for the book. My question is... Has anyone dealt with the legality of selling prints or books of artists images? I've given a copy of the book to their management in the hope I could open a dialogue and get a blessing to move ahead but radio silence this far. I definitely don't want to piss anyone off in their camp if it can be helped. The general thing I hear all the time is that if you didn't sign a contract then you own the rights, I'm just curious to what extent that protects you. Thanks for any info you may have. I've also updated my portfolio with all of my tour photos to date, I'm on 11 shows thus far and flying back to NY for two more. Somebody please stop me  https://www.justin-kent.com
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MMD3 posted:I've also updated my portfolio with all of my tour photos to date, I'm on 11 shows thus far and flying back to NY for two more. Somebody please stop me Awesome photo from a hosed Up show in there - many moons ago I went to a show of theirs with a borrowed camera set to auto and no idea what I was doing.   
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I trudged around in a literal field of mud for three days and couldn't be happier right now     I've got two more days of junk that I edited on a severely underpowered laptop that I'm going to take another crack at via my actual PC later this week. Feels nice to be back on solid ground and have the possibility of not having less than 4 hours sleep every day.
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A couple of my recent concert forays. All from Madrid. Curtis  Curtis by Iain Compton, on FlickrEluveite  Eluveite by Iain Compton, on FlickrArkona  Arkona by Iain Compton, on Flickr
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After about a year of not being able to go shoot on a regular basis due to life getting in the way I was asked to go do some concert photos at San Japan 8. I like shooting there because everything is so well lit and I'm given free reign on where to shoot from. IMG_8830 by reverendhammer, on Flickr IMG_7197 by reverendhammer, on Flickr IMG_6163 by reverendhammer, on Flickr IMG_7009 by reverendhammer, on FlickrI've also been approached to possibly do a paid photo gig for a new band which is nice.
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ReverendHammer posted:After about a year of not being able to go shoot on a regular basis due to life getting in the way I was asked to go do some concert photos at San Japan 8. I like shooting there because everything is so well lit and I'm given free reign on where to shoot from. Good stuff! The last one feels a little underexposed though. The second and third are well composed and flattering as portraits but as concert shots sometimes I feel that zooming in that close means you lose out on a lot of the context that would otherwise explain what is happening. Just my opinion, they are strong images though so well done!
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MMD3 posted:Good stuff! The last one feels a little underexposed though. The second and third are well composed and flattering as portraits but as concert shots sometimes I feel that zooming in that close means you lose out on a lot of the context that would otherwise explain what is happening. Just my opinion, they are strong images though so well done! Thanks. I think my main thing about the last one is that I feel it could have been composed a bit better but off frame in the lower left there was this big white sign that said DO NOT CLIMB ON THE STAGE. When in frame it just looked so out of place compared to the rest of the scene that I went for the trade off. I also see where you're coming from about the exposure.
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ReverendHammer posted:Thanks. I think my main thing about the last one is that I feel it could have been composed a bit better but off frame in the lower left there was this big white sign that said DO NOT CLIMB ON THE STAGE. When in frame it just looked so out of place compared to the rest of the scene that I went for the trade off. I also see where you're coming from about the exposure. ahh yeah, that'll do it... it's hard when you're shooting wide and there's a gap that big between crowd and performer. That's why I prefer to go to shows where there is no pit  
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MMD3 posted:That's why I prefer to go to shows where there is no pit Sounds like someone here has never shot a Black Label Society show.
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MMD3 posted:ahh yeah, that'll do it... it's hard when you're shooting wide and there's a gap that big between crowd and performer. A lot of the shows I tend to cover don't have pits. That was part of the reason I started using zooms (usually the 75-300mm my roommate owns) for those moments when I couldn't be closeup or just for different shots I couldn't do up near the stage. Just out of curiosity... does anyone know of any other concert photographers that are based in Austin that I should follow on places like Flickr? I did some searching a while back but to be candid I didn't find anyone who was putting out interesting images (lots of pics of performers cut off at the knees, barely any changes in angle/distance, etc.). So if you have suggestions I'd love to check them out.
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