Shooting concerts with prime lens

Shooting concerts with prime lens     One of the biggest myths in the music photography industry is that you must have the best glass to do the job. Almost everyone tells you that it has to be a fast 2.8 zoom lens, otherwise you will never get great shots....

Shooting concerts in the rain

Shooting concerts in the rain     I will start off this little tutorial with a strong warning. Do not shoot in the rain unless you got a professional camera with strong weather sealing and lens with weather sealing. If you shoot in the rain and your camera...

Shooting small shows

Shooting small shows     A recent trend that I have noticed with some of my assistants lately, is that they all want to be a music photographer but they only want to shoot the big shows. I recently shot two shows back to back, one was huge and one was very...

Concert Photography Lesson 8

Concert Photography Lesson 8     How to make money off your photography, that is the single most complicated question for most photographers and it is a question with no easy answer. Our industry is really an industry that is flooded with amateurs and...

Concert Photography Lesson 6

Concert Photography Lesson 6     In the last lesson, we looked at the drummer and how to shoot him, today we will be looking at three different shots but they are all related to each other, we will look at the hair flick, the jump and the stomp. All three...

Concert Photography Lesson 5

Concert Photography Lesson 5     Welcome to the 5 lessons in concert photography and today we are going to look at the all mighty drummer.  Shooting the drummer is one of the most overlooked shots in music photography and we will look at the how and why of...