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I'd like to hear what you lot think about this...
Concert Photographer Openly Ridiculed for His Technique, Band Comes to His Defense
The link says he behaved like that for the whole night....

My 2p is that if the audience in this clip are paying punters, then this is bang out of order.
IMHO flash is only OK where the whole situation is under the control of the band and photographer - if I fired a flash at a lot of the events I cover then I'd be forcibly ejected!
Even standing in front of the crowd like in the clip would get me chucked out from at least one of my regular festivals...

A lot of the comments in that link are in support of the photographer.
What am I missing :shrug:
 
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Well, I can only see one audience member, who seemed to be bopping along quite happily oblivious to the photographer. At least the photographer was moving around, while the video taker seemed to be fairly static and from the look of the angle was holding the camera (? iPhone/iPad?) at head height, blocking the view of anyone standing behind him/her. Have to say that I quite like the results the photographer got too. Some years ago, when we were after some shots of us playing, we got a photographer friend to come along to a sound check and shoot us with a small, select "audience" of other halves.

As always, there are at lest 3 sides to any story, the photographer's, the videographer's and the truth...
 
Way too obtrusive for a gig photographer unless he was just shooting for a track or two. If he was doing that all the way through the gig he'd not last long in any of the venues I've shot in.
 
The23rdman said:
Way too obtrusive for a gig photographer unless he was just shooting for a track or two. If he was doing that all the way through the gig he'd not last long in any of the venues I've shot in.
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Lightweight. He should have had a stepladder and a couple of big flags and reflectors :-)
I liked his results tho
 
He was asked to do a job; discussed the methods required to do it, and the results they wanted. Then he delivered. Seems fine to me.

If he was doing the same for the other band, who then asked him to stop, that's probably a bit out of order.

A 'crowd' of 30 people who had to pay sounds odd though. I think you'd have to know more about the whole situation before judging anything.
 
Jayst84 said:
He was asked to do a job; discussed the methods required to do it, and the results they wanted. Then he delivered. Seems fine to me.



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and sod anyone who paid to see them ,,maybe they won't bother to go and see them again
there's only one pic with an audiencie in it ,why not go to a rehersal if they needed a certain type of pic then to a gig to get a few more look how many didn't come to our gig pics
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I had to use flash at a gig I went to recently as the lighting in the venue was almost non-existant. I wasn't the only one though, there was a photographer with one of the bands already and the rest of the crowd were using P&S cameras with flash as well. I wasn't as obtrusive as he was though, I stayed out of the way of the crowd wherever possible, and still came away with some great shots. I've since been asked by 3 of the 5 bands playing if they can use the shots from the day for promo work and I'm in discussions with one of the bands about a possible album cover shoot early next year. It seems that some bands like flash work at gigs after all.
 
Not wanting to sound too cynical about this (even though I will anyway), but that band don't look like they're going to be in a position to demand people pay serious ticket money anytime soon. This looks like a tiny pub/club gig rather than a serious 'concert' and the photographer kind of seems to be on the same level. Had that been a more serious band with punters paying 'real' money and being irritated by his actions I'm fairly sure most promoters would have kicked off about it (and ultimately it's the promoter's gig, not the band's).
 
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