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Travis Newbury - 29 May 2005 18:43 GMT

A friend of mine is headlining at the Punchline tonight and asked me if
I would take some pictures of him. He completely understands I am
nothing but a friend with a nice camera, and is only hoping that he
might get one or two good shots for his web page. (www.scottyk.com)

I am using a Canon Digital Rebel XT and have both a 17-55mm and 75-300mm
. I plan on mixing them up through the night.

I will not be able to use a flash, I will be about 30' from the stage,
the camera will be about 10' higher than his head. (I am sitting on the
production balcony.) He will have spots on him, but that will be it for
lights.

If you have any suggestions for shots I might want to take, or how I
might do one shot or another, I would love to hear them.

Thanks in advance!

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Dominic Richens - 29 May 2005 22:33 GMT

> If you have any suggestions for shots I might want to take, or how I
> might do one shot or another, I would love to hear them.

To paraphrase Robert Capa: get closer. Even if you shooting up from the
floor.

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Paul Furman - 29 May 2005 23:00 GMT

>>If you have any suggestions for shots I might want to take, or how I
>>might do one shot or another, I would love to hear them.
>
> To paraphrase Robert Capa: get closer. Even if you shooting up from the
> floor.

Yeah, take the wide lens up to the front row for a little while at
least. What are the minimum apertures on those lenses?

Also maybe just meter for the spotlit friend's face & use manual, let
everything else go black. Or try a tripod with the long lens & allow
some motion or wait for him to pause for shots to get some background &
maybe showing motion blur could be interesting for some cases.

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Unspam - 29 May 2005 23:55 GMT

> A friend of mine is headlining at the Punchline tonight and asked me if
> I would take some pictures of him. He completely understands I am
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> Thanks in advance!

Highest ISO and widest lens aperture.

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teflon - 30 May 2005 00:41 GMT

Monopod, or tripod if there's room. A higher iso setting would be advised,
though don't just bang it straight up to the highest setting - just use what
you need. You may want to check out the tungten and custom white balance if
it has one.

Check your first shots for sharpness! Use the zoom in thingy to make
absolutely sure this.

Good luck!

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JME - 30 May 2005 00:46 GMT

You are shooting Digital, so don't worry. Start with 400 ISO. Use the
75 -300 set your shutter to 1/500 and the aperture to F5.6. fire a test
image and check your LCD. The histogram might lie to you in this case, so
trust your eyes for exposure. As the light output from the spot wont change,
and the distance from the spot to the subject wont change much use manual
and keep checking you display. If it is for his webpage, shoot JPG medium
size. You will get good enough resolution and a lot more images on each
card..

> A friend of mine is headlining at the Punchline tonight and asked me if
> I would take some pictures of him. He completely understands I am
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Paul Mitchum - 30 May 2005 03:40 GMT

> A friend of mine is headlining at the Punchline tonight and asked me if I
> would take some pictures of him. He completely understands I am nothing
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>
> Thanks in advance!

Make a joke out of it. "Ladies and gentlemen, my personal photographer.
Please make him feel welcome! Travis will be taking pictures of me from
the audience for a moment, so please, everyone... shoot him the bird.
Lovely. Thanks Travis!"

You just can't get compelling photos from the back.

BTW, that joke is copyright 2005 Paul Mitchum. Contact me for royalty
check information. :-)

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Travis Newbury - 30 May 2005 05:01 GMT

> A friend of mine is headlining at the Punchline tonight...

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Unfortunatally I had already left
before I got to read any of them (damn!). There were 4 comedians there,
Scotty K, was the headliners, Big "B" (a 3'4" comedian) and Chris
Tucker's brother (Dustin Tucker I think?) were the features, and A
local woman comedian (I forget her name right now) was the MC.

All of them wanted me to take photo's of them (impressive looking
camera), and I warned them that it was going to be hit or miss. Well I
ended up taking about 350 photos (I went with the throw enough sh.t at
the wall therory), and I got some pretty good pictures. I will post
some of the better ones tomorrow. (Time to go to bed now)

I was not able to take any pictures from the floor (club rule). I
bumped the ISO, an was able to set the shutter speed to the 1/25 - 1/40
range. So if the comedians were not moving too much I got some good
shots. Any major movment was blured.

All and all it was a great learning expierience, and all of the cmedians
will be using some of the pictures on their respective websites.

Though I was not able to see any of the sugestins before I left, I
REALLY appreiciate everyone that added there comments, and I will apply
your advice the next time I take picutres at the punchline!

Thank you all!

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