Rock and roll photographers whats your gripe? post them here

NeilMc said:
Wedding photographers who think they are gig photographers.... been to a couple of gigs recently where there have been 'professional' photographers there and they approach a gig like they would a wedding or a studio shoot.
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It is fair to say that at a wedding, where we can we sometimes have to control the light, or use lighting. Its the nature of the beast. For example in the two images shown previously, adding flash, into what was actually a dark cave (yes it was in a cave), let me deliver a complete set of full on hi-octane action dance / band/ atmosphere shots shots from what was a fairly hopeless venue in terms of ambient light. I'm paid to deliver a job, I use what's available to me to the best of my ability. In the context of shooting a wedding, it was a great result. On that particular day, it would have been a job and a half just to shoot the band alone, so getting some good work from the band was a bonus. By the time I shot those images, I was already at the 4th location of the day, and in my 12th hour of shooting, and the night was fairly young. So yes wedding photographers do shoot a lot of bands, but the circumstances are very different to gigs

However, If I go into a situation where there are house rules - then of course I can shoot with no flash. We do that in churches and the like, and I have done that with bands and other events

While I shoot weddings, I also shoot a lot of other things, and course you don't walk through the door with a one size fits all approach

Back to the shots above.. in a cave which is 20 feet wide and about 100 feet long, and a band taking up all 20 feet, and peeps dancing right up to the bass drum getting anything that is half good from the band is a challenge (any one else shot in Marsden Grotto?)

Back to shooting bands, the most annoying thing I find is when your pass means squat, or when you get there the place for photographers is milling with college kids, or when the security guard seems to have fallen out of a tree, missing the reasonable branches, the common sense branched, but banging his head on the stubborn jobs-worth branch
 
LED lighting of single colours for the first three songs.
 
Richard King said:
However, If I go into a situation where there are house rules - then of course I can shoot with no flash. We do that in churches and the like, and I have done that with bands and other events
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I accept shooting in a church is a low light situation, but you havent got the priest jumping around like James Brown and the congregation moshing in front of you :lol:


Thought there would have been a few more rants than this as many of the gig photographers I come across all look like miserable firkers... never making eye contact or heaven forbid saying.. 'Hello' to a fellow photographer
 
Right, that's it, I'm gonna crash all the wedding threads and compare the situations to gig photography!!!!!

:lol: ;)
 
latest pet hate.. those laser dot things the DJ's have
 
Is that specific to music photography Tom?

If so may I suggest you pad your statement out somewhat... because right now you are coming across as being intentionally antagonistic.
 
i dont post much , but when i do have a second to go on forums i see far too much moaning by people who should possibly look at their own images and improve rather than moaning on a forum about others, not always the case but seems to be more of it of late.
im not a great photographer, and by no means perfect but just my thoughts ;)
 
So, you are one of those folk on a forum moaning then ;)

I still find the fact your original comment a tad distasteful, really doesn't put you in the best light if you are unwilling to offer critique on folks photos directly.
 
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