How to take photos at a concert?

In order to take good stage photos, the stability of the camera is very important, and it is very important to increase the stability of the camera with a tripod or a monopod.

In the stage and exhibition site, the lighting is special artificial light, and the light source on the site is very complicated, so it is necessary to pay attention to setting white balance. Although it is recommended not to use the automatic white balance of the camera in many occasions, it is the best choice in shooting occasions of stage and exhibition. Because in the process of manually changing the white balance setting, many wonderful performance clips may be lost.

Lack of light is a big problem in taking portraits on stage and exhibition. "Dim, changeable and big contrast" is the characteristic of stage lighting, and the actors on the stage are often in motion. If you want to use actors with clear images and no blur jitter, you'd better use high ISO and choose large aperture lenses such as F 1.2 and F 1.4. These stage performances need shutter speeds of1125 seconds and1180 seconds to shoot clearly. exposure value needs to be adjusted to ISO400 or ISO800 accordingly, shoot with the maximum aperture, and increase the exposure compensation for three gears.

In terms of photometry, it may be considered that the stage lighting is more complicated, and spot photometry is more accurate. In fact, what kind of metering method should be used flexibly according to the actual situation. When the light ratio is uniform, average metering is used, and when the light ratio is unbalanced, spot metering is used. In order to prevent the camera's metering system from making mistakes, the best way is to shoot first, and then adjust the aperture and shutter settings.

Finally, it is also important to capture continuous shooting. Stage photography is not inferior to sports photography in its ability to capture moments. When trying to shoot the bounce, it may be the moment of landing, and the actor may close his eyes or frown. This requires him to be agile, know the content of the performance in advance, and have a certain ability to predict the actions of the actors. Only by pressing the shutter in advance, or adopting the continuous shooting method, can he capture the most beautiful moment.

Shoot at attention

The shutter speed of stage photography depends on the needs of performance. If you need to highlight the dance movements, you should use the low-speed shutter of 1/30 seconds to highlight the movements.