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cool.
in the right, bottom corner… do I see a bottle of beer?
if yes, why only one?
B.S.E.

Very nice picture. Good colours. The bass player is moving quite a bit but the other two fellows are more concentrated on the guitars. What was your settings? I’m getting very upset with my D7000 ISO, it’s almost impossible to make photos with 1250 without notice some noise. What’s your experience on it?

I’m jealous of all your new fancier whiz bang cameras. My current one has a max ISO of 1600, I also nicknamed that ISO “crap” since the noise is awful at that setting, not so great at 800 either. I just keep telling myself that shooting with an inferior camera teaches me more lol.

edit- Bruno, not sure if you have shot other concerts but is it not one of the most challenging settings you can imagine, you’re brain has so little downtime with lights changing brightness and color and the band moving around depending on how animated they are. So fun

Do you have a link to bands page so we can here some of songs?

brunogallant said

MHP Mike said

I’m jealous of all your new fancier whiz bang cameras. My current one has a max ISO of 1600, I also nicknamed that ISO “crap” since the noise is awful at that setting, not so great at 800 either. I just keep telling myself that shooting with an inferior camera teaches me more lol.

edit- Bruno, not sure if you have shot other concerts but is it not one of the most challenging settings you can imagine, you’re brain has so little downtime with lights changing brightness and color and the band moving around depending on how animated they are. So fun

Do you have a link to bands page so we can here some of songs?

It is quite challenging, but really fun. I have shot concerts for friends bands since 2002, starting with film, then with a Nikon D200, then with the D7000. It is way much easier now with the D7000 than ever before, but having glass at f/2.8 at least is still what you need, but with the high ISO range you can shoot at speeds higher than 1/60, which makes a lot of difference. You still shoot with spot metering, trying to catch people’s face as they move, and you shoot like crazy. I did about 650 exposures in 80 minutes on that show.

The new cameras have more options. It is a tool, does nothing without an artistic mind behind the viewfinder. I take great pictures with the camera on my Galaxy Tab 7″. I would not shoot a concert with it though.

Yea, the fast lens helps a ton, I shot with a 1.8 but with my wonderful camera lol, it has a front focusing issue and unfortunately has no way to adjust this so shooting at 1.8 with it produces less than desirable results. Thanks for the spot metering tip, I think I was using the standard metering setting on M mode. I’m shooting another concert at the end of March and I’ll mess with that.

Shure bruno, and in Portugal with a 23% of tax applied to the final consumer a D4 could cost above 5000 euros.
Glad you know Jared’s work. He is a well known photographer in the music business. I also saw the video and shoots you mentioned from his D7000. Don’t get me wrong, I loved your picture. It’s very colourfull and you were able to grab the mood, I was just making some considerations about the ISO on the D7000 from my experience on it. Yes you are right about the printing size, but I make photography of architecture among other stuff, and sometimes is necessary to print books with A4 format, like a full page or double page of a magazine…42x21cm and all the quality is necessary. Shure we have to work with what we have, and the D7000 could do a lot.
Cheers.