Thursday, June 7, 2007

Live... in concert!

I LOVE the band Live. Have since about 1992... so we definitely hit their show last night. We had a great time with my brother-in-law, his girlfriend, and two of his best friends. I also learned a couple of lessons.

1. I want a decent zoom lens. I sold the kit zoom as it was heavy and slow. The longest focal length I have is 85mm so it was OK for stage shots, but really didn't get me that close to the action.

2. A polarizing filter works great for the lights of the stage, but not so great for shooting the image off the jumbo-tron.

First shots with filter:







Shots without the filter:





The stage shot with the filter is soooo much more palatable than without, but the jumbo-tron shots with the filter, Ed is green. So it was a toss up as to which way is better I guess.