Comments on: Manual Mode Rocks!

By: Check out DPExerience | ALAN HESS PHOTOGRAPHY

Check out DPExerience | ALAN HESS PHOTOGRAPHY — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:03:21 +0000

[...] first two posts dealing with manual shooting mode and spot metering mode are HERE and [...]

By: Dave Menasce

Dave Menasce — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:11:04 +0000

Interesting article. Thanks for the tips :)

Started using Manual Mode a few weeks back and am now playing with and using it for everything.

Dave

By: Alan Hess

Alan Hess — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:24:58 +0000

Hi Wes,
Those setting are a pretty good start.
I will be talking about my specific settings and which metering mode works best to get a good starting point this week.
I remember that Fuji made a color slide film that could be pushed from 200 to 1600 and even had little boxes on the side to fill in with the speed used.
Used that at 1600 all the time…. back in those ancient times when we shot film that is.
Alan

By: Wes Gibson

Wes Gibson — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:52:05 +0000

30 years ago, when I first got into photography, I was taught that light meters are totally unreliable at concerts and to forget about them altogether. We would push our 400 speed color and B&W films to 1600, open the lens wide open (f/1.4 or 2.8) and shoot at 1/125th of a second. If the stage got very dark, like during a solo, we would drop down to 1/60th of a second. I always got fantastic results with this formula. I use the same techniques with digital, and am still getting great results.

By: Greg Taylor

Greg Taylor — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:58:08 +0000

Great post. It took me a long time to get comfortable with using the Manual mode. However, once I did the concert photos I take now are so much better. Not only that there are more images of quality that I have the luxury of sorting out before delivery the show photos to the client.

By: Alan Hess

Alan Hess — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:32:43 +0000

Hi Dave
I will be covering that soon.
Next up will be the importance of the correct metering mode and then how to pick the best starting point for concert situations.

Alan

By: Dave Cruikshank

Dave Cruikshank — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:01:53 +0000

I haven’t had predictable success at shooting concerts, just for myself. Probably because I was using Aperture Priority. So how did you determine your exposure for these shots. Thanks, Dave

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By: Rodney

Rodney — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:54:29 +0000

Good article, informative and what I was looking for, I’m interested in concert photography and this helps. P.S. Slayer rules, great shot of Tom Araya. >:)