Shooting Live:

Very good friends of mine are in a band titled A Whisper Rising, I have gone to numerous of their shows to take pictures of them playing live and I must say it is much easier said than done.  It has been something I have always struggled with, I am so glad though I am able to practice shooting with them at their shows.  I have selected a few pictures to show and would like over all feed back. I always chose not to shoot with a flash and use the macro or just turn my flash off.  After doing this I fix my f-stop and shutter speed at a rate where I will be able to capture the image very quickly, this takes the most time for me--figuring out what setting would be best for the different lighting. The picture below on the  was shot with an f-stop number of 3.5 and the shutter speed was set at 1/20 of a second. The lighting in this is very subtle and I did very little editing to this post shooting, which is what I typically do.  In this picture I am instantly reminded of Kurt Cobain.

The next picture I will talk about is when I shot for them during a music video they were shooting titled This City is a Murder Scene.  This was much easier I found to shoot live because of the studio lighting that was set up in the area in which they were filming in. Having good lighting like that makes shooting without a flash much easier to do.  I found that my pictures came out extremely clear and very crisp. As you can tell the pictures below are much more crisp and brighter than the picture above.  The first picture below was shot using an f-stop number 4 and a shutter speed of 1/20 of a second. The other picture below was shot using an f-stop number of 3.5 and a shutter speed of 1/40 of a second.

 

I hope you all enjoyed reading this, let me know what you think. I enjoy hearing feedback about my work!