Kassie opened this issue on Jun 12, 2008 · 13 posts
inshaala posted Thu, 12 June 2008 at 10:57 AM
Ok - 200mm is going to be shots from the crowd or portrait shots from stage sides... probably not a useful lens really if you are the "official" photographer and allowed in close to the band.
On the other side of things, fisheyes... well - take a picture of yourself with the fisheye and you will see how close you need to be to the band to actually get a good fish shot of them.
As for settings - yes, it depends on what the lighting is like. You will probably need the fastest lens in the ~15-100mm range that you have (IS doesnt stop motion just helps with camera shake so you need pure speed (low F-number) lenses). I'd imagine anything in the region of 800-1600 ISO will also be needed, if not, consider using a flash if you have one (bounce it or have it off camera tho - nothing worse than a flattened image with direct on-camera flash).
Also - there is a view screen on your cam... use it ;) you will only know what generally works when you are there... you will have to push your cam / lenses to their limits i would imagine as inside lighting with moving subjects is very difficult. So be prepared to accept that some of your images wont come out as you might hope, and try to control as best you can as much of the scene as possible - for instance, you might consider bringing a monopod so that you can get a good shooting platform so that camera shake is minimised - one problem dealt with will allow you to concentrate efforts on others which might present themselves under such conditions.
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