Yeah man, looking forward to pics from the SwedenRock :D
Ah well... my photo equipment is far away professional, so I usually take over a hundred (sometimes hundreds) pics during a concert and later sort the best of them out. Then I run them through Photoshop and THEN they finally look somewhat okay. A lot of work, yeah, but I like the still moments of cool concerts as good as I can get them to be.
I have to shoot again and again to get a good pic, especially of head banging, since my camera doesn't take the picture imediately when I push the button. The flash comes about 1 or 2 seconds later I think and you can't expect the muscians to stand still for you on stage
Oh and concerning flash.... it's always a thing of luck! Sometimes a pic looks better with flash on, sometims it looks better without flashlight. Sometimes the lighting of the stage is great so that you don't even need flash. Sometimes it's really dark and athmospheric (and when I turn on the flashlight and take a pic then, all I see is a wall of smoke usually...), then it get's kinda difficult to get a good pic.
I switch a lot from flash on to flash off during a show. Annoying, yeah, but necessary.
I've just got a tiny little Minolta E323 with 3.2 Mega Pixels, and it served me quite well.
But right now I'm having big troubles with my camera. It just blurrs all the pics it takes. I haven't found out why.
Here are the latest concert pictures I've taken (click)Actually all the pics on that website (
www.chillmal.at) are taken with my camera. But only the concert pics are edited with Photoshop.
