Not bad. Number 2 and 15 are good as is, although not very sharp. Number 3 and 9 are good, but needs some cropping, in my opinion. A few others are alright, but many suffers from softness/blur. You will be a good concert shooter too, but you need a faster lens and shooting at such slow speeds won't ever give you enough sharpness. (Softness or blur may be alright too, but not all shots benfit from it.)
Thanks, Lasse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tanya Mayer Photography" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:16 AM Subject: Fairygirl's first attempt at concert pix... > > So I went to a concert last night with singer Shannon Noll (was runner up on > Australian Idol). BIIIIIIIIIG news in our sleep little country hicksville. > Over 5000 people attended the concert, that is like double the population of > my entire town! > > Anyways, had some fun trying my hand at concert pix. Was extremely > difficult though as all were handheld and I was in the middle of the mosh > pit, so you can imagine the problems I faced! > > And they kept spraying the damn crowd with water (it was BLOODY hot in that > there pit!), but I spent half the night trying to protect my camera from the > fire hose! > > Anyways, all shots taken on the *ist D with Tamron 28-200mm f4-5.6 Asph lens > at between 135mm and 200mm. All handheld at f5.6 and usually around 1/8 and > sometimes up to 1/20 if I was lucky. All shot with NR on at ISO 1600. > > Actually, come to think of it, I reckon I did pretty well to get even a few > in focus with those settings. My arm muscles must be building up! > > Word of advice - never try to take sharp pics in a mosh pit with a long zoom > lens. It ain't pretty lemme tell you! There will be quite a few drunken > concert goers with bumps on their drunken heads today as a result of them > jumping into my camera (I know, I know, it is a public liability nightmare, > but I figure they were mostly too drunk to remember and besides, it WAS a > mosh pit - most people EXPECT to get bashed on the head with something! > lol)... Anyways, boy did my reflexes get good last night as I tried to > shoot quickly between crowd crushes! > > Here's a few of the better shots, the black blurry bits in the foreground of > some shots are people's heads! It does pay to be that bit taller at times. > I had some poor lady who was like 4ft standing next to me and whinging all > night about how she was shorter than most of the 12 year olds there and > could see less than them cause she didn't have the energy to be jumping > around like a maniac to see over the heads...! lol. > > These two are my favourites: > > http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/pages/ShannonNoll11.html > > http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/pages/ShannonNoll09.html > > And here are the rest of them.... > > http://www.tanyamayer.com/shannonnoll/index.html > > tan. >
