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Music Festivals

Earthcore

Music festivals offer a great opportunity for photographers to get some shots of bands, performers and other crowd members. Unlike a lot of indoor concerts, outdoor festivals often have less restrictions placed on camera gear, although you’ll still probably need accreditation and a media pass to bring in a full kit. However with pocket cameras providing high quality images these days, you will still have plenty of opportunities for good shots even if you can’t take in a full DSLR kit. They also have the advantage of being easy to stash in your pocket or a small bag for times when you just have to dance. Check with the organisers ahead of time for what you can and can’t take with you. Once inside, here are a few tips to get you going.
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White Balance

Bob Log III performing live at The Wall, Taipei, Taiwan. Getting accurate white balance in a live music environment is often quite tricky.

My very first entry in this phototip series looked at creative white balance. A few people have written to me requesting a basic description of white balance, so here goes.
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Top of the Pops

Both as a personal exercise in creativity and as a theme for a competition, putting together a series of photographs that are based on the song titles on a favorite album is a lot of fun. There are a number of ways you can go about it, so let’s look at a few. They all start with choosing or being assigned an album to use as your theme.

Spend a few hours shooting all images relating to the song titles.

Go through your archives and find differing images that relate to the titles.

In a group, divide the album up and shoot 2-3 “songs” each.

Shoot the album as a project spanning a few weeks.

Get really ambitious and try to work your way through Rolling Stone’s “Top 500 Albums” list.

For the examples here, I’ve chosen Pink Floyd’s 1973 album “The Dark Side of the Moon”. Images are after the jump.

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