Picture Noire

Not too much to tell about the picture below.
Yesterday i was shooting at the regular place, for the rockvilag.hu streaming radio's party.
I've seen a girl, who was wearing minimal makeup, but strong red lipstick. I've stopped for a moment.She was standing in the dark, and i have my zoom lens attached to the camera. I didn't want to use flash, but this lens has 4,5@35 mm. So i shoot, and than hoped that lightroom could do something with the underexpo.
Well, it did. +4 to expo correction, a lot of noise filtering, and i was able to create my 2nd PicNoire photo.

I hope you like it.

An another favourite.

Today I have  picked on another photo as a favorite. It was taken approx 2 years ago at an air parade which was held on a national holiday at Budapest.
The funny story about the photo was simple. I've read a lot how to make good sport photos, but at that time, i only had my basic lens (18-55) and soon i had to realize that it's focal length is not enough for the optimal pictures. (the planes were too far from me, and i was not able to do closeups).
So, i had to change my mind, and try to do something else. So I've started to do something else. Change aperture to F22, and starting took off the main theme from the planes to the surroundings. Just to use the airplanes as a decoration. And the result: Well, it's hanging on my bedroom wall.

One year later, I had the change to shoot some pix on the RedBull Air race. And based on my prev experience, The results were much better (and also, i got my 70-300 lens with me)

I know. There is some dust remained on the photo from the lens But this time i like it (that's why i left as it is, just gave an auto tone and colors in photoshop (that time, i was shooting in jpg, instead of raw. I know, it's a real beginner thing to do, but at that time, i was more concentrating the how to make pictures, instead of the results)

My first Photo of day feeling

It's interesting. I'm now collecting my best of pics, and i've found the first picture which made me smile, and gave me the feeling:
"Yeah I took that one."

It was my real first concert photography event. I took my first DSLR camera (Nikol) a Nikon D40 with the kit objective attached to it.

The lights went out, and i almost immediately realized that. Ok. There is no light. I don't know what will happen. Shall I use flash?

And a few minutes later i was chasing the singer from the band and tried to get something to the picture which is not only black and blurry.

It took approx 50 expo while I started to record pictures (rather than the random lines, and light sources).

And than i got this. I was amazed. The total luck shot.

I haven't change on the picture. At that time i used PS only for cropping. So i was standing there and than the lead singer came off from the stage to the audience. He hugged a girl, and singed for her some verse from the song. And i was on my knees, and pressing the shutter.

When i stood up, and see what i was able to get. That was the time when I've decided to be a concert / band photographer. I know, i'm a newbie, and with approx 17000 expos, i will be a newbie for quite a long time. But this second of my life will be a good memory.

The beginning

Hi everyone!
This would be my first post on this blog. The reason, is for this blog to have somekind of online visibility for my pictures. Hope i will get several valuable suggestions to improve my skills on my hobby.

So let's start the fun part. :)
On last Saturday i was lucky to attend on a hungarian festival, the SeptemberFest. It was a free-to-attend festival, I was really afraid because i just got my new DSLR camera, and i planned to use it. The weather was quite cloudy,  light rain. So i was there and the concerts were about to start. Luckily none of the band took their own photographers (maybe they don't have any) and it was easy to get contact with them. The main problem was the StageMaster, who declared that I must not step to the stage, nor into the reserved part at the front of the stage. So it would be quite funny to stand in the rain, and make photos from the performances.
But thanks to Péter Schrott (lead singer of the band Tuzmadar) we were able to negotiate and finally i was able to start shooting.

During the concert it was really difficult to maintain the correct exposure, because of the (almost)unknown camera, and the FireDancers. They just appered on the stage, and start dancing with the flaming stuff. It was amazing.
But at least, i was able to shoot some good pic from the lady:

Lady with Flames

Of course, she was not the main topic of the concert, "just" an element of the show. But sometimes I forget to press the shutter, because i was just lost in her performance. :)
I think this was the photo of that day, for me.