fuji F30 first snaps

lozza23_uk

lozza23_uk

lozza23_uk

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well I say first snaps, since christmas I have taken 530 pictures.
this camera is amazingly simple. but with loads of options to play with. f stop, iso blah blah. getting my head around it all has been fun. quite sure I will never learn enough :)

uploaded some yesterday for a band we had over from france. put a show on for them. took some piccies. various manual and semi manual modes. forced flash, suppressed flash. black and white seemed best due to the bad colour lighting in the venue (only a small place)
anyone ever been to midsomer norton. crazy place!
anyways here are a few snapshots.

p.s. excuse the lack of rotated images. couldnt be bothered. might fix it later.

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If you 'can't be bothered' to present them properly (rotated) you might find no one can be bothered to comment on them :)
 
From a quick look (it's too uncomfortable to really look at them..) they seem decent. The black'n'whites are far too grey for my liking though, they could do with some contrast. In a couple of shots though, you've made a big error by chopping the guitarist's hands off. A big negative in gig photography from what i gather.

Anyway, if you've managed to upload them, surely 2 seconds spent rotating them wouldnt be out of your reach? You're really not going to get positive comments with them as they are.
 
ok managed to squeeze this in over lunch. re-uploading images now. they should all be tip top (well, in the right direction, the pictures arent actually tip top!)

thanks for your patience.
 
phew.

I was reading this thread, looking at all the rotate them "complaints" and thinking OMG they look pretty much straight to me, are my eyes really that bad, and the last comment is the OP saying he had rotated them at lunch, i actually sighed in relief.

Personally I think they do look a little too dark, but that is down to preference, I think black and whites do look good, but you need to have the balance just right.

the only real crtisicm (me critising a photograph, with how bad mine are !!! ) is that you seem to have cut off parts of the instruments on most of them, I think given that these are pictures of a gig, that would lose points with a prospective buyer / admirer

Also, if you number them or title them it makes it easier for people to refer to them individually. for example the guy in the check shirt singing, there is a fair bit of empty space above him, but you can just see the top of his guitar, I would say either crop the guitar out completely, or aim a tad lower / zoom out slighty, to get the instument in
 
i did notice this whilst taking them. had the bad luck of not being able to stay in position too long (ruining peoples gig when there trying to watch).

And of course the fact that an excited musician will not stay still, let alone in frame :)

but then who wants to see pictures of musicians standing rock solid bored out of their minds :)

comment noted for future. thanks.

was hoping to get more colour shots, but the lighting in the place was bad, and had to use a flash mostly. then every pic I took just looked like family picnic not a rock show. definately going to have to play with getting the light in, and not taking a blurry shot.
 
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