How to get the clearest picture with a camera when watching a concert?

Although the auditorium of Jay Chou and other singers' concerts is very dark, the lighting on the stage is totally different. Under the spotlight, the performer's acceptance can be enough to shoot without a flash. If f/4 aperture is used, ISO400-800 can provide a shutter speed of1125 seconds or even higher in many cases, which is enough to freeze the actions of the performers without much change.

Focus on measuring light

Compared with the background, the performers on the stage have a high luminosity under the irradiation of spotlight, and the light difference between the subject and the background is very large. If you use the average metering preset by the camera, the metering will be affected by the dark background, and the subject is seriously overexposed. As long as you lock the performer's luminosity with key photometry, the problem can be solved. The method of locking exposure varies from machine to machine. For models with many automatic functions, half-pressing the shutter will lock the exposure, and most of them have no independent exposure lock button. You can lock the exposure before the official shooting, and then press the shutter after re-composition.

be concentrated

Digital cameras have multi-point autofocus function. For example, the autofocus point of CanonEOS 10D has 7 points. Although you can set the focus position manually, you can safely use the camera's autofocus selection function when shooting a concert. Because the performer's luminosity must be the highest in the concert, it is unlikely that the camera will choose the wrong focus. Save the trouble of focusing, and everyone can concentrate on exposure and composition.

4. Pay attention to the white balance of sunlight

The color matching of lights is one of the most wonderful places. However, if you use the automatic white balance mode, the camera will make the lights in the scene white and the photos will be unrecognizable. You'd better use the daylight white balance setting, the color of the photo will look more original.

5. Pay attention to black and white clothes

It is mentioned that people should use key metering, but when the performer wears all-black or all-white clothes, the metering system of the camera will be misled, and the photos are likely to have serious exposure errors. Therefore, if the performers wear all-white clothes, everyone needs to increase the exposure by about 1 to 1.5 ev (i.e.+1.5 EV); If you wear black clothes, you need to reduce the exposure of 1.5.

Turn off the flash

The distance is too far, and turning on the flash is not very helpful for shooting the concert. On the contrary, it will cause the reflection of the smoke in the venue and make the photos gloomy. It will be clearer to turn off the flash.