Photo-a-day

[IBM]

Bob .... very cool shot. I didn't realise bigfoot played guitar...

[mycarsavw]

It's either a Guns N Roses tribute act or a Queen tribute act or a chap stuck in the 80s.

Very cool shot (and shirt) though

[Bobster]

Fleetwood Mac Tribute

[IBM]

Oh good god

What kit are you using for these shots Bob, any additional lighting, tripod etc? They're just incredibly sharp for what must be really tricky lighting conditions. Fancy doing a tutorial on it?

[Bobster]

Oh good god

i know its a photo-a-day thread, but i'll just throw another in

What kit are you using for these shots Bob, any additional lighting, tripod etc?

couple of 20D's, 1 with 28-75 2.8 Tamron and the other with 70-200 2.8 sigma.. no additional lighting (would spoil the atmospheric lighting) - Tripod?! gotta be joking..

They're just incredibly sharp for what must be really tricky lighting conditions.

all in the timing, and yes its quite tricky shooting gigs.. specially when you have people all around you not wanting to budge from their bagged spot..

Fancy doing a tutorial on it?

nope..

[Bobster]

great capture

[IBM]

nope..

Quel Surprise!

[Whiternoise]

Out of interest Bob, how many pictures do you take on a typical gig night, and how many "good" shots do you end up with after?

[mmh]

dunno about bob, but i usually shoot between 200-400 shots on a gig night (2-4 bands) and about 50% are publishable.

usually end up showing about 10-20 of each band when im done

[IBM]

50%!? Seriously? And at a 'publishable' level? That's amazingly good for gig sets....

[mmh]

yeah seriously...

Ive not done too many gig photos. but the first gig i ever did was an all dayer, and i took 700 photos (14 bands), and only the first 3 photos came out blurry, after that every one was in focus and the perfect exposure...

im not too good at taking photos in the light, but gimme a dark stage and i seem to find the exposure really easy.

[mmh]

example of my last band shot (well, the support band anyways):

i seemingly took 95 photos throughout thier 45 minute set, and they can all be viewed if you go to www.stegough.com - /hdatv/

they havent been edited, just converted from raw > jpeg and sized to 800px along the longest edge...

so you can see an example of how many bad shots i get...

even the ones with stuff in the picture which shouldnt be there can be "edited" slightly afterwards, especiallyw ith raw capabilities to add to it...

so have a gander and see what you think of my unedited beauties

[mmh]

bugger, it seems converting them from RAW to jpeg they have all taken a turn towards coming out darker... - they must have imported my last used settings in raw and gone dark...

ah well, either way, you can see my pictures, theyre just a bit darker than shot.

[Bobster]

Out of interest Bob, how many pictures do you take on a typical gig night,

enough

and how many "good" shots do you end up with after?

well for Fleetwood Bac i came out with 244 that i found acceptable, how many amazing shots, don't know not processed all the shots yet

[Bobster]

bugger, it seems converting them from RAW to jpeg they have all taken a turn towards coming out darker... - they must have imported my last used settings in raw and gone dark..

so why aren't they fixed? shouldn't take more than 20 mins to convert all those again

[Bobster]

so have a gander and see what you think of my unedited beauties

first 7 shots i wouldn't even bother editing they belong in the bin..

if 9 can't be rescued, bin
10, bin
11, bin
12, bin
13, should have been a tight crop on the singer, bin
14, bin
15, is an ok shot, if it can be rescued, or bin
16, prefer 15, bin
17, unless your RAW conversion really darkend this shot, bin!
18, bin
19, bin
20, rescue or bin - might get away with an ok pic, but it looks like he's about to eat the mic
21, better, rescue or bin
22, 21 is better - bin
23, 21 again is better - bin
24, way too dark - bin
25, again too dark - bin
26, you guessed it - bin
27, holey mother of god!, bin
28, bin
29, repeat of 28 - bin
30, repeat - bin
31, bin
32, repeat - bin
33, recover or BIN
34, what a face! - bin
35, better - recover or bin
36, its that dodgy angle again.. bin
37, recover or bin
38, repeat - bin
39, another repeat - bin
40, did your finger get stuck? - bin
41, bin!
42, recover or bin
43, ur finger is stuck again - bin
44, take the finger of the shutter button! - bin
45, can't see you recovering this.. bin
46, no idea whats happening in this frame - bin
47, repeat - bin
48, tighter crop on the guitar on the right
49, bin
50, bin
51, blurred - bin
52, goofy expression - bin
53, nothing happening - bin
54, recover or bin
55, repeat - bin
56, repeat - bin
57, bin
58, bin
59, too much headroom - bin
60, repeat - bin
61, recover or bin
62, is that a keyboard on the left blocking the bass? bin
63, repeat - bin
64, bin
65, bin
66, bin
67, bin
68, bin
69, bin
70, bin
71, bin
72, recover or bin
73, bin
74, bin
75, bin
76, bin
77, recover or bin
78, bin
79, bin
80, bin
81, recover or bin
82, bin
83, bin
84, bin
85, bin
86, bin
87, bin
88, what the beef is that?! bin
89, bin
90, bin
91, bin
92, bin
93, bin
94, bin
and 95, bin

this is how i would have culled the photos..

so 13 possibles out of 95 shots (thats a what 14% keeper rate?)