Gig Shots C&C

bovril

Went along to a gig partly organised by a mate of mine on Tuesday night. There were 5 bands/acts in total so i have a tonne of photos to process. The last band were my favourite so I processed their photos first (although still not all done). All shot with the 40D and 50mm 1.8

Roen

Was looking at them on Flickr earlier and I thought they were deadly. Some really good ones there, well worth taking a look

melekalikimaka

awesome love one and three, great captures, so crisp and excellent bw conversion

Dragan

Really nice stuff bovril, a lot of character in them which is always a winner.

Would love to see more of them so will be sure to keep an eye on your flickr.

deaddonkey

melekalikimaka wrote: »

awesome love one and three, great captures, so crisp and excellent bw conversion

I echo this, some fantastic shots there.
good work.

bovril

Thanks a mill guys for checking them out. I'll have the rest of the bands up over the next week although I don't think they are as good as the ones I have done so far.

latchiko

Great stuff bovril. Amazing shots. They are incredibly sharp - did you shoot wide open on the 50mm or was it bright enough to increase the DOF a little?

bovril

latchiko wrote: »

Great stuff bovril. Amazing shots. They are incredibly sharp - did you shoot wide open on the 50mm or was it bright enough to increase the DOF a little?

Thanks. I tried not to shoot wide open. During certain songs I had to. I was also doing a lot of experimenting with shutter speeds, lowering the shutter to 60 and making the aperture smaller to see if I could capture movement. That didn't really work. Exif data is available on flickr. The middle shot above is wide open. The other two aren't.


The lighting was fantastic for all 5 bands/acts actually. Much better than any other gig I've be shooting at. The 2nd act was a guy playing acoustic guitar on his own. I was getting away with ISO 400, F4 and shutters of 320ish if I remember correctly.

Dragan

bovril wrote: »

The lighting was fantastic for all 5 bands/acts actually. Much better than any other gig I've be shooting at.

The Button Factory is alright for lighting actually....though when it is bad in there it is BAD!!! Still, after shooting two weeks ago in the Sugar Club i'm pretty sure that is about as bad as lighting could ever get!

bovril

Dragan wrote: »

The Button Factory is alright for lighting actually....though when it is bad in there it is BAD!!! Still, after shooting two weeks ago in the Sugar Club i'm pretty sure that is about as bad as lighting could ever get!

Kinda helps when you know the lighting guy and you can ask can he do stuff for you

TelePaul

These are crazy-sharp. Well done, they're very cool.

duckysauce

cool shots

Borderfox

Excellent stuff

thebaz

very good , particularly shot 2 which is the most striking --

does anyone else shoot on mode S , after a disaster i will never go under 200 of a sec , too difficult to hold steady under 150 of a sec

melekalikimaka

thebaz wrote: »

very good , particularly shot 2 which is the most striking --

does anyone else shoot on mode S , after a disaster i will never go under 200 of a sec , too difficult to hold steady under 150 of a sec

neigh

never shutter priority, always manual or ap priority, low light can be a front bum with gig shots, i'd knock up the iso til the cows come home to compensate for shutter lag

melekalikimaka

oh and i'd usually be circ 30th a sec on most shots... prob why they aint this sharp :rolleyes:

thebaz

melekalikimaka wrote: »

neigh

never shutter priority, always manual or ap priority, low light can be a front bum with gig shots, i'd knock up the iso til the cows come home to compensate for shutter lag

i probably always do things arseways -- but its such a panic , with pushing & sweat & beer -- even on the d 300 , i hate going above iso 800 :eek:

sheesh

melekalikimaka wrote: »

awesome love one and three, great captures, so crisp and excellent bw conversion

What he said

feckin cool, love the facial expressions as well on the first one.

bovril

Thanks all for the comments.

@thebaz - Shutter speed all depends on the lens you have on at the time. If you're using say a 50mm and the subject is not fast moving then you should be able to get away with handholding it somewhere around 1/60. Practice will tell you exactly what shutter speed you can handhold with. If you have a zoom lens on you'll have to use a faster shutter speed.

@mele - I'd never say never go to shutter priority for gigs. I generally don't ( and I haven't done many gigs so choose to take what I say with a pinch of salt). The reason I was on shutter for some of them was a mistake on my part. I was using the flash earlier on with shutter priority for some shots of friends and I switched the flash off and forgot to change to manual. Having said that, I found nothing wrong with shutter priority because I had the light for it to pick the correct aperture.