Faktion at Firewater in Dallas - MY FIRST CONCERT CC GREATLY APPRECIATED

Hey just got to shoot my first concert!!! Faktion is the amazing band!! They are from Dallas and put on an amazing show! PLEASE PLEASE give some CC!!! I want to know how to get better!

1. Marshall (lead Guitar for Faktion)

#1, 4 and 5 are very nice.
I like 7, even with the hand covering most of the face. Is there really a photographer with a flash bracket?

A bit more face would have been nice in #2.
#6 I'ld crop a bit. #8 doesn't work for me because of the lighting, flare, and reflections in the mic stand in the BG.

Firewater has some lighting that will make you work a bit. We used to go to Thursday music there with The Twister Radio station. Now they go to Glass Cactus. I think you did pretty good for your first concert, and knowing the lighting there, that will range from way to hot, to way backlit. I think #8 might have had a better result to have shifted to your right, putting that hit green light completly blocked by the singer, and more of a "glow" around him, but then a better exposure for him.

Well, #8 has EXIF and it shows ISO 200 in your 20D ... let me recommend you shoot ISO 1600 and damn the noise! Rene is being nice ... #2 is useless ... pictures of people are about faces. FACES, Faces, faces. #7 is pretty useless, too, with his face covered with his hands. I know only too well that it is a LOT of work to wait around until people's faces show but that's my big recommendation for you. And nobody wants to see a sweaty beer belly even if there is a face attached ... zoom in on the face.

I actually really like 7. yes, face is blocked..but some singers put their hands all up in their face, all over the mic..yada yada..No, I'm not a "professional concert shooter" but I certainly enjoy it.

I dont think 7 is useless. (clone out the four bright spots in the background!)

The rest them:

1: I'd rather it be in focus..seems off a bit.
2 & 3 are very similar in subject , I prefer 3.
4: I'd crop out the bright light to the right. Love the emotion!
5: I really love this one!!! I'd also crop just a tad off the top (the lights on the right)
6: I like this one too...not alot...but I do like it. again, crop off the right mic and the lights off the top, really bring all focus on him directly.
7: you know
8: not diggin it..too much green light!

Thank ya'll so much for the CC and being 100% truthful! I love the criticism because hopefully it'll make me better! It means alot to me to have my stuff critiqued by a season professional like you guys!! But from EVERYONE it helps! Keep the CC coming, it is all greatly appreciated and once I get better at this I will in return critique others! Thanks Rene, Dwight, Johnni, and Grace. Any of you ever shoot in the dallas area, drop me a pm and let me know, I'd love to learn!!! I admire all of ya'lls work also, it's great!

Dwight - sorry dear but I have to disagree with you a bit. Yes seeing faces in important but hands and body tell the story as well. The hand up at the face does that. If I had been shooting, I would have probably gotten a side shot. I try not to shoot straight on to a person's face with a mic. I too like seeing faces. Personally I don't go for the shots like #3 where I'm not sure where the "focus" is. Shots that zoom in on the hands playing are great but I would rather see them in focus especially if that is where the emphasis is supposed to be.

earplugsrequired wrote in post #4134639
Dwight - sorry dear but I have to disagree with you a bit. Yes seeing faces in important but hands and body tell the story as well. The hand up at the face does that. If I had been shooting, I would have probably gotten a side shot. I try not to shoot straight on to a person's face with a mic. I too like seeing faces. Personally I don't go for the shots like #3 where I'm not sure where the "focus" is. Shots that zoom in on the hands playing are great but I would rather see them in focus especially if that is where the emphasis is supposed to be.

Everybody has an opinion! And how do you like that masculinity in #8?

Seeing the naked, sweaty manliness doesn't bother me, they are working hard up there!!! but..the big green light bugs me

Grace wrote in post #4134782
Seeing the naked, sweaty manliness doesn't bother me, they are working hard up there!!! but..the big green light bugs me

Oh, Kathy, just reading your description sends shivers down my spine! I love a girl who loves beer guts!

ha ha!!! thats funny!

Grace wrote in post #4134819
ha ha!!! thats funny!

You? Or Me?

DwightMcCann wrote in post #4134756
Everybody has an opinion! And how do you like that masculinity in #8?

Haha, yes, the guy was fat...and sweaty... and you should have seen the ladies at the front of the stage rubbing it...disgusting!!!

DallasPhoto wrote in post #4135045
Haha, yes, the guy was fat...and sweaty... and you should have seen the ladies at the front of the stage rubbing it...disgusting!!!

"Ladies", in groups, will do almost anything!

Geez, Kathy, that alcohol post came and went fast!

Haha, I didn't see an alcohol post!