Styx Live 08-29-15...

AngelOfBadBreath · Sep 3, 2015

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Casino gig. No flash allowed. Very close to the stage (too close, really) due to the front row on the audience being a very drunk V.I.P. crowd.

Derrel · Sep 3, 2015

You must have been very close. All the shots are pretty tight shots. I saw them a few summers ago at an outdoor venue that had I dunno...8,000 people...I took my cheap thrasher camera, my D70 and a 35/2 and some other lens....we were sitting maybe 50 yards from them and they were loud as hell. We could barely see the stage.

vfotog · Sep 3, 2015

AngelOfBadBreath said:
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Casino gig. No flash allowed. Very close to the stage (too close, really) due to the front row on the audience being a very drunk V.I.P. crowd.

way too many images. it's important to cull the images, removing the substandard ones and the redundant ones. What did you shoot with? Everything is the same crop; no zoom? Nothing wider? Also, everything is horizontal. It's better to show a variety of crops and orientations. And there are almost no shots where you can see the instruments, which is important in concert photography. There is an awful lot of the dreaded "mic mouth". Change your angles to avoid that and if you can't, be ready for those moments when the artist steps away from the mic. Also, be aware of your focus. For example, I notice on some of the shots of Tommy Shaw that the focus is on the mic and he is not in focus. In some images, the artist is entirely OOF. Are these SOOC? Some are really blown out and some need some color correcting.

limr · Sep 3, 2015

I have to agree^^^. I had a huuuuuuuuuge crush on Tommy Shaw as a young girl, but even I don't need that many pictures of him standing at the mike.

FITBMX · Sep 4, 2015

I have seen Styx four or five times, they are always great!
The last live show i went to was ZZ Top, my brother and I were only five rows off the stage. But everyone in those front rows was so drunk, or stoned it ruined it. We even left a little early, you know before all those drunks got in their cars. :048:

pixmedic · Sep 4, 2015

its not Styx without Dennis DeYoung

AngelOfBadBreath · Sep 6, 2015

Derrel said:
You must have been very close. All the shots are pretty tight shots. I saw them a few summers ago at an outdoor venue that had I dunno...8,000 people...I took my cheap thrasher camera, my D70 and a 35/2 and some other lens....we were sitting maybe 50 yards from them and they were loud as hell. We could barely see the stage.

I was very close. Far closer than I would have liked to have been. In hindsight, I should have utilized the aisles to give myself a little leverage.