Concert photography...

TylerDCA · Jul 12, 2003

I'll post of few of my photos, just looking for some opinions, I don't wanna post too many, cause the thread could become huge very quickly.

MDowdey · Jul 12, 2003

there was an article recently in AP about concert photographers. the pictures you took were BETTER!!!!!!!! awesome work tyler!

md

TylerDCA · Jul 12, 2003

my pictures were in that article of AP.. i got shafted... look at page 54.

i entered these 3 photos:

MDowdey · Jul 12, 2003

yeah tyler!

you wont get shafted by us, im your new personal desciple!

check your pm's

md

manda · Jul 12, 2003

tyler, tyler, tyler, this couldnt have come at a better time for me.
your photos are fantastic.
i love them. im going to check your site out too.

got any tips?
ive got a gig coming up and i want to know what are the best ways to shoot.
i'm hoping to be fairly close to the stage, so i know i won't need a flash. just not sure about shutter speeds and aperture..

im a major amateur, got any tips you could share with me? i'd be very appreciative!

TylerDCA · Jul 12, 2003

i take it you are shooting film...

for the sake of simplicity and my current lack of an slr, I always shoot digital.. but as i shoot in manual.. i do set all the aperture and shutter speed settings, but im not sure how well they will transfer.

The other thing is that I always shoot with a flash. I try to keep the ISO as low as possible (never higher than 200) just because i hate the noise you get...

now.. i do a couple of different things... when i want a clean, image, i usually shoot 1/60-1/80 with and f-stop of about 5.6-7.1

if i want a little bit more colour (to get the reflection of the lights off of the band members) i try to drop to about 1/30, and shoot with about 6.3-8.0...

now that also depends on distance.

For the blurring onces... you get the clear image whenever the flash fires... and i shoot about 1sec shutter, and always shoot small f-stop >= 8.0 so that i dont get too much light entering the lens when the flash isnt firing... i hope this helps... like i said, i always use flash, but if you are shooting 200iso or higher, you can probably get away without it, also i dont always have the best lighting conditions so flash helps.

mrsid99 · Jul 12, 2003

Hi Tyler,
Opinions as follows: # 1, 4, 7 & 8 are very good.
# 2 & 6 are OK.
# 3 don't like it...sorry!
# 5 absolutely excellent!

Remember that's just my opinions.
Keep at it, you're pics are great!

TylerDCA · Jul 13, 2003

hmmm that is interesting... #03 is one of my favorites...

manda · Jul 13, 2003

Thanks so much Tyler. Im going to print that off and study! lol
Thanks matey, Im very appreciative!

Dew · Jul 13, 2003

great photos!!!

very animated ... fabulous color

TylerDCA · Jul 13, 2003

MDowdey here are the bands in order...

1. murder by death
2. boys night out
3. this day forward
4. thursday
5. alexisonfire
6. nicotine
7. from autumn to ashes
8. mindthread
9. rufio
10. moneen
11. the get up kids

I have also shot AFI, This Day Forward, Thursday, Murder By Death, .moneen., Get Up Kids, My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, The Starting Line, Rise Against, Further Seems Forever, Anberlin, Autopilot Off, Strike Anywhere, Glassjaw, Northstar, Mad Caddies, Lagwagon, Rufio, Saves the Day, Selfmade Man, All-American Rejects, Piebald, Choke, Fairweather, Reason, No Other Way, Sparta, Armor for Sleep, Hopesfall, Ash, Farewell to Freeway, Fifth Grade Hero, Wakefield, Terror, Bane, Nicotine, Death By Stereo, Downway, Most Precious Blood, From Autumn to Ashes, Full Levity, All Against Me, Ghosts of Modern Man, Hey Mercedes, Alexisonfire, No Motiv, Silverstein, Somehow Hollow, Onelinedrawing, Juliana Theory, Hot Rod Circuit, Hot Water Music, Movielife, Yellowcard, The Used. and more...

Damien · Jul 14, 2003

I love the way the photos are so animated.

StuartShepherd · Jul 14, 2003

really like your pictures - well done
especially like 2, 3, 4 and 6!

stuart
www.stuartshepherd.com

Armageddon Machine · Jul 18, 2003

You shot Juliana Theory? Lucky duck. They are never around my area.... Anberlin and FSF are pretty swell too. I'd like to see a few of these if you ahve them off hand.

I'm one to go to concerts a lot, and attempt concert photos, they are so bloody hard because of all the movement and darkness... More practice for me I suppose.

TylerDCA · Jul 18, 2003

Armageddon Machine said:
You shot Juliana Theory? Lucky duck. They are never around my area.... Anberlin and FSF are pretty swell too. I'd like to see a few of these if you ahve them off hand.

I'm one to go to concerts a lot, and attempt concert photos, they are so bloody hard because of all the movement and darkness... More practice for me I suppose.

you can check out all the photos here: www.junkedcamera.com/photos.php

and TJT is nothing to be jealous of, I have seen them twice and they are a terrible live act. Further Seems Forever isnt great either, Anberlin was pretty good, but there are much better live acts out there.