I'm just getting around to proofing some of the photos I took during the Foo Fighters concert a week and a half ago. I'm going to upload all of them to a Flickr account (and I'll post a link here), but I wanted to share one or two of them here just for fun. :)
This first photo shows the four main guys in the band. The other photo is just of Dave Grohl, the lead singer.
It was pretty dark in the stadium, but I tried real hard to get some photos. It wouldn't make sense to use a flash - we were at the top row of the first level - because it definitely wouldn't reach the stage. Plus, that would just be rude to be taking flash photos at a concert. Instead, I brought my camera with my fastest lens - my 50 mm 1.4. So I sacrificed zoom for a wider aperture. The other two lenses I have would have gotten me closer pictures, but I'd have to use slower shutter speeds because their aperture doesn't open that wide. Plus they are much bigger physically, and so the 50 mm was the best choice. I upped my ISO setting to 3200. I knew I would get a lot of noise at that ISO, especially in dark photos. But I have some great Photoshop plug-in software (Noiseware Professional) that does a really nice job of eliminating noise, and so I ran these photos through that to clean them up.
These photos are cropped in pretty close to show the actual band. Still, not bad for where we were sitting. :) Concert photography was actually kind of fun. :)
