Vicar Street photos

Kyr · She's So Modern

Vicar Street photos

Scottie · Loudmouth

They are really good, well done! If you send them to Eddy, he will put them on happyfanclub as well.

Tango · In the Long Grass

theyr excellent

kidneybean · House on Fire

These photos are great especially compared to the 2 or 3 I tried to take from the balcony! Especially like the one with Vince in the foreground.

You mustn't have been using a flash as it looks like you used a long exposure. Very effective.

Kyr · She's So Modern

thank you :)

yeah kidneybean, I never use a flash for concert photos - I prefer the effect without (especially in Vicar St, the lighting is wonderful). also I find that it's disturbing to the artist if you're standing close to them and your flash is going off all the time. when I take gig photos I want to get the moments that I see - so, nothing artificial used at all.

Scottie, forgive my ignorance, but who's Eddy and does he have an email address? the site mod for happyfanclub, I presume?

Steven · I Don't Like Mondays

ok, gimme your recipe (please) for indoor gig photos w/o flash! I bought a brand new camera before going to the UK, but I still coudlnt get the right effect

It's got umpteen functions and modes, and depite a long RTFM session, I seem to be at a loss... Luckily my other trip photos turned out very well *phew*

Kyr · She's So Modern

oh wow, I don't know! I'm pretty inexperienced :) - and I use a 3.1 megapixel camera! I don't actually know how any of it works out for me...

are you using film or digital? and I guess all I'd recommend is maybe using a motion setting, if it's a digital...

Joke · The Dutch One

One tip might be: Try taking pictures when the stage light is blue or white, instead of read or yellow.

Kyr · She's So Modern

that tip to me? yeah, the blue lights seemed to work out better that time.

although, in the last show I shot at Vicar St, the red and yellow lighting worked really well (the Mark Geary photos in the Flickr album) - so maybe it depends on the lighting itself?

franna · V Deep

It has to do with how bright the light is, not what color it is.

Steven, if your camera's Fing M is in an online or mailable file, send it to me and I'll read it and tell you what my best guess would be for a proper setting.

Joke · The Dutch One

No Kyr, your pictures are great! The tip was intended for Steven who asked for a recipe.

Steven · I Don't Like Mondays

franna wrote:

It has to do with how bright the light is, not what color it is.
Steven, if your camera's Fing M is in an online or mailable file, send it to me and I'll read it and tell you what my best guess would be for a proper setting.

FujiFilm S9000 Manual (8MB PDF File)
I tried the S priority mode like you mentioned, on a similar light level in the basement... had a "bit" better results. I know that the camera can take a LOT better indoor gig pics, because I've seen some pics of a Queen concert on a digicam forum, and they were excellent.

Thanks Franna
And its "Steve" ya know.. noone calls me "Steven" but my mother.. heh

Kyr · She's So Modern

ah, okay, just wondering - thanks, though :)

you have an 'n' on your screenname! heh. but I'll have a look at that camera, I'm not familiar with it. my one is a Kodak and the only other I've used recently has been a Sony.

Steven · I Don't Like Mondays

Kyr wrote:

you have an 'n' on your screenname! heh.

Yes, but only because I was robbed *ehum*

Its OK, dont worry yourself over the manual.. That's a job for Franna

Kyr · She's So Modern

there's a Steve too? no other Kyrs, but maybe it's because I'm an enigmatic pseudonym. hiding behind a camera :)

I'm interested anyway... I'd like to know more. at the minute, all I can do is take photos. I don't know how to talk about how!

franna · V Deep

Yes, "Steven", I know you're Steve, but I was trying to differentiate you from "Steve" and I was too lazy to look and see if he'd posted in this thread.

What's the widest aperture on your lens? How was your lightmeter set?

And a "similar" light level in your...basement???? I seriously doubt that's possible, but w/o taking readings we'll never really know. It's been a long time since I shot this sort of thing, but if I remember correctly stagelights were often around F 4 at 1/60 (or was it 1/1/25) at say, ASA 400. But that's a guess from memory. I doubt your basement is that bright - is it?

-- Edited by franna at 23:18, 2005-12-16