Latest Gig Photos (C&C)

Oriel

Hi Folks,
Had the pleasure of another Duke Special concert there last night.
Photos can be found here:

http://www.stephenlynn.co.uk/gallery/DukeSpecialLisburn/

It's about time I got round to making a proper website...

Steve.

DotOrg

some good shots there. interesting grainy effect on some of them? only criotique is that you put up too many shots, weed out the average ones and leave only the best ones

Borderfox

Great shots, what equipment do you use?

Oriel

Just going to bed...
DotOrg - I agree with you - less is more. I just went through all the decent ones I had, and by the time I got to the end I thought "feck it" and just uploaded them all, just incase other people fancied the ones I didn't, hence my posting them on here to get some feedback about what ones are decent, and what ones I should forget...

Borderfox - Nikon D70, 50mm f/1.8 - but I was too far away for nearly all of them, so most of them are taken with a really, really crappy 28-100mm f/3.5, which was far, far too slow for the gig. A few are taken with a Sigma 10-20mm, but I was too far away (again) and the concert was in an arts centre, so photography in general was a no-no, never mind flash photograhy...

Due to the nature of the crappy lenses, I think they look better in thumbnail form, but I'm trying to get feedback on "the eye" as it were, rather than the amount of £pounds behind the lenses.

...if that makes sense.

On a side-note, the most important thing about this thread is Duke Special. Great musician and nicest guy you'll ever meet. Go and see him if he's in your area - he's supporting the Devine Comedy in their upcoming European Tour.

Steve.

/edit - Hmm DotOrg, just looking at the gallery there, yeah - a lot of them see to be really grainy - they're standard Nikon iso 800/1600, so I think the Mac gallery software is doing something strange with them - must look into that. Saying that, this is the first set of images that I've put my name at the bottom, so unless that is doing something strange (can't think why...), anyway. Poor light, what can you do? (Flash! and run like hell!...)

Oriel

On a closer look, the grain is definitly some software compression. I'm tempted to take the gallery down until I sort that out. The original images aren't like that at all. The only thing I've done to the images is slight cropping and small levels and contrast.

Dammit.

S.

Valentia

DotOrg are you famous yet? Your work should be getting recognised by some of the big boys by now. It deserves it.

DotOrg

if by famous you mean not famous then yes

music photography rarely makes money or gets any level of fame, especially in Ireland, we don't have enough money in the Irish music industry to get anywhere big anytime soon

mikeanywhere

I'd love to do a lot more stuff like this.

Out of interest - are you invited by the band, are you a paying customer with your camera gear (if so, how do you get through the security with all the gear??) or are you invited through the organisers etc??

Its something I would love to do more of especially with the pics I took at the fairly recent David Craig concert in Galway which I thought were the awesome.

DotOrg

most concert photography you ask the band/managent.promoter if you can shoot them and then you get a photo pass which means you can shoot the first three songs, without flash, and then you have to stop taking pictures. you rarely get paid and finding publishers who'll pay is even harder. after a while, you'll be asked by bands to come shoot their shows but again money is rarely involved.

Borderfox

Its a cruel world dotorg, everything sounds great bar the no money thing. Somebody must be getting paid?

mikeanywhere

DotOrg wrote:

you can shoot the first three songs, without flash, and then you have to stop taking pictures. you rarely get paid and finding publishers who'll pay is even harder. after a while, you'll be asked by bands to come shoot their shows but again money is rarely involved.

Why only the first three songs? I'm sure there are things that happen in the show that would no doubt be awesome if caught on camera. I dont mean anything stupid or deliberate but more towards expressions etc whilst performing.

I am also talking about doing this kind of stuff as part of the learning curve rather than assuming (at my level anyhow) it would be for money.

melekalikimaka

sinecurea wrote:

crappy 28-100mm f/3.5, which was far, far too slow for the gig.

i wouldn't say that, i find i get some great shots at that ap, 1.8 makes it too easy