5dmkIII camera setup for live band

Hi everyone,
I was originally going to post this in the 5DIII pictures thread as this is where the below images were posted, but thought it would be better to start a new thread.

I was going to ask elery2375 how he went about approaching a shoot like this? (Hopefully he'll see this and drop in too )

I'm off to take some pics of a band's CD launch this weekend at one of the pubs. Not having shot inside a pub before I am wondering how you'd set up the camera. Would you place priority on shutter speed or aperture, or shoot in manual? I'd think manual would be difficult due to the constantly changing lighting. I'm taking a stab that perhaps auto iso as well or do you run the risk of the camera selecting too high an iso than you want?

That's a bit of rambling thoughts there. My thinking is to perhaps shoot in AV, evaluative metering, auto iso and minimum SS of 1/125. This would allow me to select the DOF I want, minimise blur from subject movement and then let the beast do the rest.

I'll be taking my 24-70 2.8 and my nifty fifty II, just 'cause it can give me 1.8

Thanks for any pointers you can spare.
(I should also point out that I don't expect to take images to the standard of elery2375, but if I can get close I'll be stoked.)

elrey2375 wrote in post #14306810

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Thanks for the compliments and I can only tell you what worked for me and I'm sure others do it differently but it worked out ok. I actually shot the entire concert using TV mode. I used Pattern metering and the white balance was Auto, with Auto ISO as well. I used TV for a couple of reasons; while Manual is great, you have to be constantly messing with more than one setting and I only had the first 3 songs to get what I needed so I didn't have time to be fussing around very much. Every second, literally, counted. I used TV because I could then use the SS to affect my exposure and I knew that unless I called for a very slow SS, which I knew I wouldn't, the camera would have to keep the aperture wide open or very close to it, to fulfill my SS request. It's not something I would do for everything, obviously, but in this situation it worked. If I had been shooting the whole concert, I no doubt would have used manual and not been worried as much about it. At F4, I was at 1/160 at iso3200, at 2.8, I was at 1/320, same iso. You can limit the ceiling on Auto ISO if you're worried about it going too high. I have mine set to 12,800.

Such a quick response, wasn't sure if you would even see this thread.

I appreciate your response greatly. Really helps to have an understanding of why you chose those settings as well.

Not sure what lighting they're going to have, but normal pubs it's just a mish mash of random lights. No lighting director at these venues.

Thanks again.

swoffa wrote in post #14438610
Such a quick response, wasn't sure if you would even see this thread.

I appreciate your response greatly. Really helps to have an understanding of why you chose those settings as well.

Not sure what lighting they're going to have, but normal pubs it's just a mish mash of random lights. No lighting director at these venues.

Thanks again.

Not a problem. I hope you have fun and I look forward to the photos.