Cool, I think I just "sold" my first pictures :)

This danish Commodore 64 revival-band, "Press play on tape" (which I'm a big fan of), did a concert at a computer-party I'm involved with. They announced on their webpage that they would like pictures taken during the concert. So I mailed them and said they could get all my pictures of the concert if they would ship a signed CD to me, so they did

At least I'm uploading 600MB+ of pictures to them now, and they have already started "web'ing" some of them. Even cared to give me a byline

http://www.pressplayon​tape.com …t.asp?pid=conce​rts_tg2004

Hm, $25 for the cd (yes norway is expensive), plus an added $10 since it's signed... COOL! I only need to do about 98.6 more concerts before my 10D + lenses have paid for itself

Are those your pictures on the main page?
They are great!

What sort of setup did you need for that type of lighting (lens, camera settings, etc)?

I love shooting concerts, and staged events.
That is why I have the trusty 50mm and 85mm primes.

Yes those are (a few of) my pictures. Currenctly uploading 600MB of more pictures from that concert to them, so they probably add more soon.

My setting was quite simple. Lightning was whatever the stage-crew was giving. And most of the time that was not much to be honest

For the equipment. First of all I must say I was extremley lucky, as I was the only still-photographer allowed inside the security-fence. So I could literally climb onto the stage if I wanted to. But there where also to professional-looking video-cameras there with two guys on each, so I tried to play it nice and keep out of their way, since I didn't want to get broadcasted to wherever they where broadcasting, as that clueless newbie wondering about whether to use night or portrait program of the 10D (Ok, that _WAS_ a joke ) But at as said, I was extremely lucky with location (real close), so I used my 50mm f/1.4, changing between Av (locked at 1.4) or Tv (locked at 90), on ISO-200 - ISO-800, and some occastional ISO-1600 just to play it safe. I used the "closest to spot" metering (without recalling the name for that) the 10D has to offer. It worked out quite nice I think, it was only my second concert ever, and the first beeing the night before, so I'm satisfied. Think I'll want the 35mm f/2.0 soon, cause I was so close that 50mm was to narrow most of the time :/

Pics turned out really great. That's pro-quality work! Congrats on your "sale"!

-dave-

Really, those are excellent. Nice job.

Cool! Nice pictures. That kind of lighting is a huge challenge. You've done well!!! Congrats!

This that 600MB of the finest shots, or is it half-full of plain stuff?

My suggestion would be to pick out only the best stuff, probably no more than 20% of the total, and send that. They might be more impressed.

---Bob Gross---

Good deal VVizard!

(and nice shots)

Yes,. they are quite good as far as Danish Commodore 64 revival-bands go,. but I still prefer the "See em dee - Dee colon one" for there deep basic programming sound....

ROFLMAO

Good point, Bob. The readers of my website get kinda cranky when I produce a multi-hundred photo gallery. It's just too much to look at. From a customer standpoint it's just too much to try and decide on. Pick the best and go with that.

Good pictures. I've seen full-time pros not pull off a concert that well. It's a challenging venue. Great start!

Nice stuff. Best of luck on the next 99,999!

They asked for _all_ of them. So what I did was to delete all pictures I didn't like at all, and only kept what I thought was "good" to great. That gave me back 600MB of 1000MB. Quite satisfied with that ratio though Out of those 600MB, around 70 was shots I personally think was great, while the rest at least was good enough that I keep them around my HD instead of deleting it. I think they wanted all of them for personal reasons. They will probably only put up a selected few on their webpage.

Helge,

these photos are just great! Congratulations!

They would also benefit any 50/1.4 vs. 50/1.8 discussion thread, IMHO.

Best regards,
Andy