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Keith Fusco
18-08-2008, 10:04
Any recommendations?

Gonna give it a go in October for a local thing which is on every month. Never done it before, so any tips'd be nice.

Was tempted to whack it on Sport mode, and give it a bash, to see the outcome.

I know a flash would be useless, so that's out of the question.
eye_on_me
18-08-2008, 16:44
get yourself a prime lens, thats all you need :)
Keith Fusco
18-08-2008, 17:04
I wish I had a Canon 50mm lens. :(
eye_on_me
18-08-2008, 19:09
hehe ^^^
Ian
18-08-2008, 22:10
My Top Qualtity ones :lol:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b218/ExtremeVB/100_0007.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b218/ExtremeVB/100_0008.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b218/ExtremeVB/100_0013.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b218/ExtremeVB/100_0019.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b218/ExtremeVB/100_0017.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b218/ExtremeVB/100_0020.jpg
clubjamie
18-08-2008, 22:15
Where did you take the pics of Billy Talent?

But Keith check out this guys gig photography, hes pretty amazing, hes taking pics of my band at a gig in October. I would suggest you charge more than what he does though as he only takes £10 for a nights photography.

http://www.myspace.com/philip_laing_photography
Fagan
18-08-2008, 22:15
My Top Qualtity ones :lol:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b218/ExtremeVB/100_0020.jpg
what megapixel is that? best I've seen



lol:look:
Ian
18-08-2008, 22:16
Billy Talent was either at Astoria I think it was or Earls Court (Give It A Name)

Fagan, you try taking it in the middle of a moshpit :lol:
Keith Fusco
19-08-2008, 08:13
But Keith check out this guys gig photography, hes pretty amazing, hes taking pics of my band at a gig in October. I would suggest you charge more than what he does though as he only takes £10 for a nights photography.

http://www.myspace.com/philip_laing_photography

I'm doing it for free mate. I know a mate who puts on gigs every month at the local college, and I've played there a few times, so I had a word with him the other day, about getting some photo's for him, so I can get some for myself too.

He said yeah, and whacked me on the guestlist, so I'll be able to go every month, and get some experience for free. Then when I decide I'm half decent, I can charge. :P
Ian
21-08-2008, 17:49
Got some from Avenged Sevenfold last night, will put them up later.
l2ke
21-08-2008, 18:49
i did some for the holloways a while back...they're not great i'll admit but have a look if you want :shrug:

www.myspace.com/pulppics
Keith Fusco
22-08-2008, 09:36
Got some from Avenged Sevenfold last night, will put them up later.

Whoop for A7X!

i did some for the holloways a while back...they're not great i'll admit but have a look if you want :shrug:

www.myspace.com/pulppics (http://www.myspace.com/pulppics)

They're alright mate. :)

What settings did you use?
Nutkin
31-08-2008, 12:37
you need a good flash cause your gonna be competeing against stage lights!
l2ke
31-08-2008, 12:40
Whoop for A7X!



They're alright mate. :)

What settings did you use?


lol biggest aperture i could and flash :\ and manual white balance it cus of the lights in there
Keith Fusco
31-08-2008, 14:06
you need a good flash cause your gonna be competeing against stage lights!

430EX will be on its way to me when I get back from India mate. :)
Gazza_DJ
02-09-2008, 23:14
I stuck mine on aperture priority and set it as low as possible, which was F3.5 as I was using a kit lens. I'll post them up once ive edited, at the moment I am lacking a working HDD, and I wouldnt know where to start editing photo's with GIMP on Fedora.

I used the flash for most, but I like having some elements of the stage lighting in the picture as well - I found the flash completely overrided the stage lights on people. I kind of compensated for this by adjusting the flash exposure, but that wasnt ideal. Some will come out real nice in the edit I hope.
Trial and error tbh! :lol:
Keith Fusco
03-09-2008, 10:33
Looking forward to seeing some mate!
Gazza_DJ
03-09-2008, 21:23
Well, after an hour or so pissing around with Fedora to get access to my ****ed HDD, i did it, and before it died I managed to get one of the photo's kind of edited and resized:

http://xs331.xs.to/xs331/08363/p8291777527.jpg

It isnt too great, but hey, first try.
Gazza_DJ
04-09-2008, 21:12
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e370/gazza_dj/P8291791.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e370/gazza_dj/P8291792.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e370/gazza_dj/P8291793.jpg

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e370/gazza_dj/P8291804.jpg

hopefully have another go in a couple of weeks at a different venue. focussing was a nightmare lol.
Keith Fusco
05-09-2008, 13:38
Nice. Manual focus FTW! :P
Gazza_DJ
05-09-2008, 17:14
Well, hopefully im going to pick up a nice Sigma 30mm F1.4 lens which will be nicer than the kit lens by a fair margin :lol:
Keith Fusco
05-09-2008, 17:17
Well, hopefully im going to pick up a nice Sigma 30mm F1.4 lens which will be nicer than the kit lens by a fair margin :lol:

Lol, yeah. I'm wanting a 50mm, but I think it'll be a while before I get it. I'll stick with my 28-300mm lens, to see how that handles mid-gig. I'll take the kit 18-55mm though, incase.