Something I do once a year for the last eight
years has been to visit Photoshop World
in Las Vegas, kind of a Disneyland for photographers, photoshoppers, and
illustrators.
This year, I also went to a pre-conference
class, “Real World Concert Photography” with Alan Hess and Scott Diussa.
I’ve photographed concerts in the past and now
I want to know what I’ve been doing wrong all these years!
My camera of choice is the Canon 5D Mark III
and I used a Canon 24-105mm lens. I wish
I had my 70-200mm lens because there were times I wanted to zoom in on the drummer
in the back, but I still got some usable shots of him.
Much of what I heard reinforced what I already
do. I set ISO to 1600, NO FLASH
(NEVER!), I start out at 1/200th of a second shutter speed, and open
up the aperture to the highest setting, which in my case was f/4. Sometimes when the white light came up on the
band, I had to increase my shutter speed, but for the most part those settings
worked fine on manual. I also used auto
white balance. Shooting in raw, I could
correct for color temperature within Lightroom.
Our group photographed a band called “Rebel Soul,” a southern rock band that
appears in Las Vegas. Joey is their lead
singer. They were incredibly
cooperative. Essentially, we had three songs
to take photos. Then Alan and Scott
would take each band member and give advice along with suggesting things to the
photographers, and then they did three more songs.
Until My Next Adventure,
See You On Down The Road!
See all of my photos
from this adventure on Flickr
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