August 2008

Just cause I am curious.. what ISO do you use when shooting a show? I am really, REALLY new to all this and I am photographing the concerts at this years fair. It's an outdoor venue with decent lighting at night. I always go back and forth on what I think I should use.

Here's an interesting topic for discussion. A consultant to the music industry is advocating they explore blanket licensing. The basic premise would be that people who pay a fee into a joint fund would have unlimited access to all of the music the labels contribute to a music pool that the fund sponsors. The funds collected would be disbursed statistically among the artists who created the music based on samplings of usage.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-paying-for-music-has-becom...

What do you think of this? Will music artists embrace this?

I left my DSLR kit at home and shot just film. T-Max 3200, Pentax P30 and a 50mm 2.0
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C&C welcome.

I'd like to hear some "war stories" from concert and band shoots. Could be funny, painful, messy, bitchy, prima donnas, what ever. I'm participating on two panels at an upcoming music conference. I want some great stories to share with musicians about their peers as examples of how NOT to be with photographers who are helping them boost their careers.

The philosophy would be that we want to be part of the team. Treat us nice and we will do everything we can to help them.