Battle of the Bands

[adam*]

Recently covered a Battle of the Bands event in the student union which was organised by my friend. Music varied from pop rock to metal.

Full set at: http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/battle_of_the_bands&page=1

#1
http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/image/99418204.jpg

#2
http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/image/99418245.jpg

#3
http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/image/99418183.jpg

#4
http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/image/99418273.jpg

#5
http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/image/99418157.jpg

#6
http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/image/99418278.jpg

#7
http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/image/99418282.jpg

#8
http://www.pbase.com/adamgrayphotography/image/99418190.jpg

[philthejuggler]

Number 2 & number 4 are your best IMHO - I like those two, especially number 4. The others could be crisper, or you've focussed on the instrument when my preference would normally be on the face of the musician.

Phil

[adam*]

Number 2 & number 4 are your best IMHO - I like those two, especially number 4. The others could be crisper, or you've focussed on the instrument when my preference would normally be on the face of the musician.

Phil

Cheers. It was hard to get them any crisper as many were shot at 200mm between 1/40 - 1/80 at iso3200. Lighting was terrible obviously so at 2.8 it became a bit of a problem! Sometimes had to focus on the instrument as focus wouldn't lock on the faces. Wish I had more than just the 50 1.4 for these situations as it left me with very limited options.

[philthejuggler]

If funds allow consider the 135 F2 L - it should be a good length on your 5D for this sort of thing & locks easily with its large aperture.

[adam*]

If funds allow consider the 135 F2 L - it should be a good length on your 5D for this sort of thing & locks easily with its large aperture.

It's definately on my short list for the future, along with the 35L. As I have virtually no money at the minute it's not possible though :(

[Warrenism]

Nice shots considering the lack of colour availability at the venue. I presume only red and green?
I felt 3 and 4 were cropped a little too close maybe.

Man, i wish the 400D would produce such noise free shots even at 1600!!!

[adam*]

Nice shots considering the lack of colour availability at the venue. I presume only red and green?
I felt 3 and 4 were cropped a little too close maybe.

Man, i wish the 400D would produce such noise free shots even at 1600!!!

Cheers. Yep only red and green and all frontlit. I'd kill to shoot a show with backlighting / some kind of display etc. It's hard to get interesting photos with just a few boring spots. I'll go back to the raw files on those and see if they were cropped. Shooting 5 bands in a few hours was pretty rapid though so changing lenses wasn't always possible in order to get enough photos.