Kevin's Weblog

Last weekend when Kenn and Sarai were in town, we went to a performance by East Meets West. Because we arrived just as the intermission started, I didn’t get to see as much as I might have liked, but what I did see was pretty interesting.

Here’s a couple photos from the evening:

There’s more posted on Flickr.

I don’t have much experience with concert photography, so this was an interesting learning experience to try to figure out how to capture the atmosphere. I quickly discovered than none of the programmed modes did a good job. I figured that I needed longer exposures to pick up the colored lights in the smoke, so I started playing around in shutter-priority mode. The most successful settings seemed to be about a 1/15 or 1/20 sec exposure to get the colors plus flash to freeze the performers. The other big thing I learned is that I need to spend some time familiarizing myself with all the controls on my camera until I know them by feel and can accurately adjust everything in the dark.