RE: [Leica] Re: concert shooting (was Leica Camera-Handling)

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Bob - You've been talking to my wife, right? ;-)

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: concert shooting (was Leica Camera-Handling)



OK, call me a kill-joy, but I have a problem with clandestine photography.
You buy a ticket, you agree to the rules. If the rules say "no photos" then
don't bring a camera. If you don't like it, don't buy a ticket.

Bob (ol' stuck in the mud) McEowen


In a message dated 3/15/00 8:13:00 AM, tekapo@golden.net writes:

>Without a flash, and most concerts will not allow them, you need to get
>very
>
>close to the stage. I am not a big guy, so I have had to use social skills
>
>to elbow my way to the front and get complete strangers to cover for me.
>I
>
>tend to befriend girls, they're less aggro about my presence, and trade
>my
>
>business card for their addresses and a promise of a photo for their
>
>assistance. You'll be quite surprised how accomodating they can be with
>this
>
>sort of deal. I've shot over 400 concerts and probably close to a thousand
>
>bands/artists (a small handful of my concert photos, nearly all of them
>shot
>
>from the audience in a clandestine nature with an old Nikon snuck past
>
>security, is on my website, if anyone's interested.) I don't take too many
>
>concert shots any more, it gets too exhausting waiting up to five hours
>in
>
>impatient and hostile crowds for bands to take the stage after 2 am, then
>
>having them hit the stage with nothing but backlighting, and then getting
>
>kicked in the head by crowd surfers. It's happened more times than I care
>to
>
>think about. As an aside, I should mention that my decision to buy a
>
>rangefinder was made at a John Cale concert 5-6 years ago at a small club
>
>where he was playing solo accompanied by his piano. I was up close to him,
>
>and the Nikon mirror was making a clearly audible noise that Cale could
>
>hear, and I think it pissed him off. That nailed it for me.