Whelans

5uspect

Sorry, this is going to be a bit of a rant.

We went to see Colm Mac Con Iomaire in Whelans tonight and it appears so did a sizeable photo club. Now this was a mostly very quiet intimate gig so the audience was keeping pretty silent and enjoying the music.

We were at the left of the stage and had three people over my left shoulder constantly shooting. Only one of them appeared to be using a silent shooting mode. There was another guy right across stage on the right also continuously shooting with an incredibly loud and distracting shutter. Up front were three guys videoing the whole thing, one guy using a 70-200 on a crop body mere feet from the performers and then swinging another tripod mounted camera across the audience after every song.

After about 45 minutes I got frustrated and asked the girl with the loud shutter to my left if her camera had a silent shooting mode because it was very distracting, in fairness she stopped snapping so frequently. One of her friends by this point had migrated to sitting on the edge of the stage texting on his phone.

Towards the end of the gig as the encore started a few more of them ventured into the two rows of seats at the stage, big camera bags and all, and proceeded to loudly shoot through the entire thing. I counted about ten people in all and about four tripods amongst them.

I would emplore folks going to gigs that are going to be quieter more intimate affairs to consider their behaviour and how their actions adversely affect people who are there to enjoy the music.

thebaz

its cause of the insensitivity of some snappers, why the first 3 song rule should be mandatory , some supposed photographers can't read situations when to shoot and when to enjoy. its horrible when what you relate happens, sometimes the best gigs are when i put the camera down and just enjoy the music

Studio120

Solution is a 35mm camera with manual wind loaded with Tri X or Delta 3200 :-)

Nice and quiet and doesn't upset people.

5uspect

The solution is common sense and courtesy. They treated the place like their own private studio.

Studio120

5uspect wrote: »

The solution is common sense and courtesy. They treated the place like their own private studio.

Well yes of course.

But if they had been shooting on manual wind cameras they would have made hardly any noise compared to a modern digital SLR etc, therefore not annoying people as much.

I still can't understand why modern DSLRs are so noisy when all the have to do is flip a mirror and open a shutter, its not like they are winding on a roll of film.

CabanSail

What always amazes me is how some people at a gig seem to shoot another shot for every song, even though they are still in the same position and the lighting has not changed. News Flash - The audio will not change the image.

almorris

I doubt if they had been there alone they wouldn't have been so discourteous. People hunting in packs, at whatever pursuit it is, tend to think might is right.

Silva360

Personal experiences mean nothing anymore, not unless the whole world knows you've 'been there'.

LUZ

as far as i know the album launch was being recorded for the band so that explains all the action and the tripods etc.