November 14, 2008 – Following Cute Is What We Aim For‘s energetic set, Secondhand Serenade closed out the night with a rocking, heartfelt set that had the ladies swooning.
Photographer’s Notes:
Compared to Cute Is What We Aim For’s highly energetic set, Secondhand Serenade was a much slower-paced shoot. The main obstacles for this set were the lighting and positioning of large speaker monitors around singer John Vesely.
To deal with the first challenge, I utilized flash for accent lighting, which helped a little in adding dimension the scene.
I photographed this performance using the Nikon D3 and 24-70mm f/2.8.
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Well tomorrow no school for me, I’m getting fed up by being with so little time to follow your work and the work of others who have been such an inspiration for me to keep photographing. What can I say about this post, here’s another one of those bands I didn’t knew but will check out in the near future, and as always an excellent job done by you Todd. Congrats!
Best Regards,
Celso Miranda
Hey Celso! Glad you’re getting a little bit of a break, and happy you could catch a set here, it’s nice to hear from you.
Thanks for the comment.
Out of curiosity Todd, when you shoot, do you set noise reduction to off and do all NR in post, or do you let camera NR do some of the work?
-Zach
Hey Zach, yes, I set NR in-camera to zero. With the D3, I’ve stopped doing luminance NR as well – if anything, I will do a pass to remove chrominance noise, but I leave the grit.
I like him, but he’s a pretty mellow singer for sure.
1, 3, and 9 are my picks. I like the full shot of 9.
Hey Chris, thanks for the picks.
Superb! What are your settings for these shots? Did you photoshoped?
Hi John, thanks. The settings I used changed throughout the set to balance with the stage lighting, so the exposure was all over the map for these. All the images are pretty much as-shot, no processing with Photoshop aside from resizing and saving for the web.
Wow! I will be shooting a concert tomorrow for the first time, was thinking If you can give some tips or initial settings I can play with.
John, you can see a few recommendations for exposure under the “Browse” tab at the top of the nav. Exposure is one of the most difficult things for many people in concert photography.
Aside from exposure, composition is as important as it ever is in any type of photography. Also, don’t forget the drummer.
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