Help refine/tweak my concert and night club lens line up!

So me and my new buisness partner got hooked up with a very lucrative opportunity to shoot live performance bands and have 2 nights a week doing night clubs. We have another 2 weeks until we start and want to really gear out rigs to suit the jobs

My set up is currently in my sig + a tam 17-35 and random stuff

I'm gonna probably move stuff around and put this together


gripped 50D w/ flash bracket and sync cord 430exii + wish list =
Tokina 11-16 2.8
Sigma 30mm 1.4
Tamron 17-50 2.8
135L

Partner has 5DII, 580exII and 430ex II
35L
70-200 2.8 IS
14mm Fish 2.8

Anything from this that you would exclude and replace? Were kind of on a tight budget but wouldn't mind dumping some useless gear like my 100mm macro which I barely use now. I was concidering instead of the 135L a 100mm 2.8L IS macro

Fast enough for concert/band shoots with IS to make up the loss stops From having F2 on the 135 and the flexibility of still having macro. From wha I fathered the 100mmL isn't as sharp as the 135 but the colors are much better

Ok enough rambling...

very lucrative opportunity in boston to shoot bands? or is this crowd shots in nightclubs?

It's both, were not talking 6 figs... But enough to start getting gears I've always wanted

even 4-5 figures for shooting live bands seems like a fantasy world to me. are there Nigerian investors backing you?

My skills aren't so good when it comes to bands yet but for clubs I usually shoot at about 14mm on my 10-20mm. A lot of people like using an 17-50mm type lens in clubs and I've seen one guy around with a 24-70 - it all depends on how big the club is, how busy it is and who your photographing (clubbers, DJs or crowd shots).

Personally the 10-20mm is awesome for clubber/crowd shots but I'd like a bit more range for DJ shots (I should really take my 50mm out some time).

Drakeskakes wrote in post #10827900
live performance bands and have 2 nights a week doing night clubs.

Night club and band are two very different things.

Night club: Something in the 16-35mm range and one or two flashes.
f/4 is fast enough mostly.

Band: 16-200mm range, no flash.

That's on a 1D body, so you might want to adjust (the shorter) FL's to either 1.6 crop or fullframe. 16mm will barely be wide enough for nightclub on a 1.6 crop IMO. It might do for bands on stage.

Anytime I shoot bands in clubs it's almost exclusively with primes, alot of clubs are dark with junk lighting so I try to eek out as much light as I can shooting wide open most of the time.. I usually have a 35mm if I can get up next to the stage, otherwise 50mm or 85mm for drummer shots usually, the only other lens I might pull out is my 24-70L and that's if I can't move around at all.

narlus wrote in post #10835918
even 4-5 figures for shooting live bands seems like a fantasy world to me. are there Nigerian investors backing you?

ditto.

narlus wrote in post #10835918
even 4-5 figures for shooting live bands seems like a fantasy world to me. are there Nigerian investors backing you?

LOL!

narlus wrote in post #10835918
even 4-5 figures for shooting live bands seems like a fantasy world to me. are there Nigerian investors backing you?

****, i think i've only gotten 3 figures once.... maybe my business skills or photography sucks