Whelans and flash

thebaz

I'm meant to photograph some band soon in Whelans, if memory serves me right, the lighting is reasonable and won't need flash .... is my memory right ...thanks

positivenote

hi,
i shot a gig there recently enough without a flash and the images can be seen here: http://www.thedeadflags.com/HTML/Home.htm (the live photos of the band wearing yellow t-shirts in the 'look' section of the site). i think the lighting is gameball

Dragan

Once you have something with a wide ap and fast you will be fine.

bovril

Really depends on where the gig is. Downstairs(orig venue) I don't know about. Upstairs is pretty bad for light. I was in there this day last week and I had to use my flash for the whole gig.

AnimalRights

positivenote wrote: »

hi,
i shot a gig there recently enough without a flash and the images can be seen here: http://www.thedeadflags.com/HTML/Home.htm (the live photos of the band wearing yellow t-shirts in the 'look' section of the site). i think the lighting is gameball

When I seen Deadflags in the link I thought "mmmm this could be decent"
After all there were Punk bands called
Dead Kennedys
Dead Boys
Black Flag
White Flag
Dead Milkmen
Dead Mans Shadow

Alas it was something quite different..

sheesh

if you know the band why not go in at their sound chechk with a flash and get some photos then?

thebaz

thanks all - different opinions - i think it will be okay without, i hate flash, kills atmosphere for me - high iso i think

pete4130

I shot upstiars last week with my D3 and D2Hs. Shot the D3 at 3200 ISO....it is quite dark up there but the colours of the lights are quite intense. I haven't uploaded them yet. I shot about 800-1000 ISO on the D2Hs and they were fine. The stage is more lit or was) more lit from one side than the other so be prepared for a big change in exposure from one side to the other and dark shadows. You've got the D300 right??? You should be fine without flash. I was using the Nikon 50mm 1.4 and the Nikon 80-200 2.8 and got results I'm happy with. I'll try to post them later i fI get the chance.

sheesh

Also if you have time take some test shots to see if you will get away with a high enough shutter speed with a usable iso

pete4130

Here are some shots form upstairs on the D3 at 3200 ISO from both sides of the stage:

AnimalRights

Colour one is damned impressive.

thebaz

thanks pete, colour one is excellent - i have d300, which goes to about iso 2000 , but really 1,600 max - anyway i'm not bringing flash - hopefully get some atmosphere, and maybe some sharpness

thebaz

thanks all, the lighting was pretty awfull, but got this one which band hopefully like - the flash didn't work right !



I'll have a set up on pix.ie later of Britains finest mod band

AnimalRights

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