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Any tips for concert photos PLEASE!!! Can anyone please tell me what's the best film and film speed to use at indoor concerts. Any other advise on this subject would also be gratefully received.Thank you.
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John A. Lind |
Paul, There's a host of unknowns in your question: (a) What kind of concert: Symphony, concert band, rock? (b) Indoor or outdoor? (c) If outdoor, day or night? (d) Photographer location: on stage, just below front of stage, from the back, balcony, in the middle of the audience? (e) Flash usage: can you (is it allowed) and will you (if it's allowed and if you have a flash powerful enough)? (f) Tripod usage: can you (is it allowed) and will you (if it's allowed)? (g) Purpose: personal, publicity, album cover, advertising (poster)? (h) B/W or color? (i) If color: transparency or negative? (j) Lens speed? I will assume you're asking about "rock" concert color photography, without tripod or monopod, without flash, and don't need great enlargement. Even so, film choice still depends on what you want from the photographs: Following are based on avoiding contrasty or highly saturated films for shooting what is inherently already very contrasty and often saturated (due to colored lighting) subject material. Most of these will also allow reasonable enlargement. Film speed depends on lighting levels and your lens speed. Color Negative: Color Transparency: If it's shot under tungsten stage lighting, often found in smaller clubs (to get colors these lamps have a "gel" placed in front of them) consider using tungsten balanced film: Kodak Professional Ektachrome 320T (EPJ). Use EI 640 and push 1 process. The only B/W films that come to mind are ISO 400: Kodak Tri-X (consumer 400 or professional which is ISO 320) and Ilford HP5+400. Kodak's TMax 400, while finer grained, is too contrasty for this. -- John
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