The most challenging shoot EVER.
Hi there and welcome back to another one of my rambly posts!
And no, I'm not exagerating, the shoot I'm going to tell you about truly was one of the most challenging shoots (probably even THE most challenging shoot) I've ever done.
This happened last Saturday (10th of March) when I was shooting A New Chapter's gig in Vienna.
I didn't expect much from the venue (aka good lighting), but the actual lighting was a joke. Like why would you put two lights on each side of the stage and leave the middle (where the band actually was) completely dark? That's an unsolved mistery.
And I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I still tried to remain positive and thought: naah, that's gonna work out somehow. I lost all my hope the minute I did the first test shots and had to set my ISO to 10000 because otherwise the shot would've been completely black (even though I set my aperture to 1,8 and the shutter speed to 1/80 which was honestly the slowest I could go without having all shots completely blurry). And well, 10000 was a bit too much for my camera (surprise, surprise...)
After this I thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, but it did. There wasn't a proper stage and the venue was reaaaally tiny, so shooting on a 50mm was quite a challenge, as you need some space between you and the objects you're shooting, which I obviously didn't have (and no, I don't have any other prime lenses/zoom lenses that would work in that lighting).
But did I already mention that half the time I was shooting nearly blind? The two lights completely blinded me and I had to rely on my camera's autofocus to get some pictures.
As you can probably tell, the pics turned out really bad. I spent hours on the edits and I'm really not happy about them. But hey, that's life.
All I wanted with this post is to give a little inside into a photographers life (ok, and complain a bit) . It was still a lot of fun and I'm glad to have this experience - I feel like in moments like this you really get to know your camera and learn the most.
Anyway, enough of my complaining, here are just a few shots (the ones that a actually look halfway decent).
Let me know if you've ever had a similar experience!
Have a great day,
Jitka
(I'm literally crying at how much noise there is in these)
And no, I'm not exagerating, the shoot I'm going to tell you about truly was one of the most challenging shoots (probably even THE most challenging shoot) I've ever done.
This happened last Saturday (10th of March) when I was shooting A New Chapter's gig in Vienna.
I didn't expect much from the venue (aka good lighting), but the actual lighting was a joke. Like why would you put two lights on each side of the stage and leave the middle (where the band actually was) completely dark? That's an unsolved mistery.
And I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I still tried to remain positive and thought: naah, that's gonna work out somehow. I lost all my hope the minute I did the first test shots and had to set my ISO to 10000 because otherwise the shot would've been completely black (even though I set my aperture to 1,8 and the shutter speed to 1/80 which was honestly the slowest I could go without having all shots completely blurry). And well, 10000 was a bit too much for my camera (surprise, surprise...)
After this I thought it couldn't possibly get any worse, but it did. There wasn't a proper stage and the venue was reaaaally tiny, so shooting on a 50mm was quite a challenge, as you need some space between you and the objects you're shooting, which I obviously didn't have (and no, I don't have any other prime lenses/zoom lenses that would work in that lighting).
But did I already mention that half the time I was shooting nearly blind? The two lights completely blinded me and I had to rely on my camera's autofocus to get some pictures.
As you can probably tell, the pics turned out really bad. I spent hours on the edits and I'm really not happy about them. But hey, that's life.
All I wanted with this post is to give a little inside into a photographers life (ok, and complain a bit) . It was still a lot of fun and I'm glad to have this experience - I feel like in moments like this you really get to know your camera and learn the most.
Anyway, enough of my complaining, here are just a few shots (the ones that a actually look halfway decent).
Let me know if you've ever had a similar experience!
Have a great day,
Jitka
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