O2 Academy Advice - Have Photopass

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I have been fortunate enough to get a photopass for the NME awards tour at leeds academy.

Although very excited, i'm now bricking it :help:

I've been shooting live music for 2 years and this is my first time in an academy style venue with a a photopass.

I'm looking for advice and suggestions from anyone, particularly anyone with experience in academy size venues, or Leeds Academy itself.

So far I have;

Emailed the venue requesting restriction information as I couldnt get a human on the phone.

I have name and number for tour manager, and time i'm expected to arrive.

Checked flickr to make sure my lens (I only have the 24-70) is enough, it seems to be, I can crop loads on the 5D2 if needed.

Bought extra memory, now have 4 x 8GB.

I have plenty of batteries should flash be ok.

Sat/Sun I will make sure both camera batteries are full.

Other than a spare body, am I missing anything?.......
 
And another thing! I am trying to get a pass when the same tour comes to Norwich, who did you contact at NME please?!

Cheers,

Dunc
 
kluen said:
I have been fortunate enough to get a photopass for the NME awards tour at leeds academy.

Although very excited, i'm now bricking it :help:

I've been shooting live music for 2 years and this is my first time in an academy style venue with a a photopass.

I'm looking for advice and suggestions from anyone, particularly anyone with experience in academy size venues, or Leeds Academy itself.

So far I have;

Emailed the venue requesting restriction information as I couldnt get a human on the phone.

I have name and number for tour manager, and time i'm expected to arrive.

Checked flickr to make sure my lens (I only have the 24-70) is enough, it seems to be, I can crop loads on the 5D2 if needed.

Bought extra memory, now have 4 x 8GB.

I have plenty of batteries should flash be ok.

Sat/Sun I will make sure both camera batteries are full.

Other than a spare body, am I missing anything?.......
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You might want to contact Nick, he is the venue photographer so he can fill you in with much more info than I can.

You should be fine with the 24-70 though. For a tour with 4 bands on it, you probably want to arrive when doors open as the first band will probably go on stage not too long after.

8GB is more than enough memory for one night unless your on machine gun fire mode, but bring extras if you have them.
 
Be great to know how you got the pass :)
 
Dave450 said:
Be great to know how you got the pass :)
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I regularly shoot for a webzine, I met thier photo editor at a gig one night, after a few good submissions I now get regular emails and pick the shows I want, or suggest shows I fancy.

Normally I wouldn't go accross to Leeds due to public transport reliance, but this will be worth it.

Thanks for all the replies, especialy those to Nick, he'd somehow slipped through my flickr net!

As for the 8GB being enough, you'd think so but I still rattle off 400shots at a normal gig so theres nearly two 8GB cards down, although I guess here the 3 song rule will either cut my numbers down, or make me spam more! With the two extra cards arriving this morning I have the piece of mind. I'm sure one of my others is an ebay fake too so that worry is gone now.

The "more properties" option in flickr is a godsend, looking through them I'm now sure i'll be able to get the shots I need with the equipment I have.

:thumbs:
 
A lot of venues/bands don't like you using flash in the photo pit. The standard photography restrictions for the pit are that you're allowed to take photos for the first three songs of each band only, with no flash. I'd take it, and if they tell you to stop using it then just stop. Better to get a few dark photos than get a bad rep with the venue/band.
 
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