Concert Photography Workflow: Alan Hess

Alan Hess is a well known concert and live-event photographer working in mainstream media. Besides shooting, he also teaches a concert photography workshop at Photoshop World and is the author of  All Access: Your Backstage Pass to Concert Photography.

Alan recently posted a wonderful article on his concert photography workflow that is a must read for any concert shooter.

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Lightroom 3 Custom Develop Settings Tutorial

In a previous post, Lightroom 3 custom metadata templates, I showed you how you can easily create a metadata template and apply it to every one of your images upon import.

In this post I wanted to share with you another setting that I apply to every image upon import as well. Develop Settings. These are settings that I used to find myself going back to all the time with in the Develop module.

Lightroom 3 Custom Metadata Template Tutorial

In my workflow, I have a pre-created a metadata template as well as a starting Develop Setting that I apply to all my images during import. The metadata template includes all of my copyright and contact information. The Develop Setting I’ll share in another post, but here is how to create a custom metadata template you can apply to all you images upon import.

Lightroom an upcoming series

This year I really wanted to start sharing, what I hope to be, some valuable info to this site. Many of you are photographers really interested in (or already are) shooting shows. I wanted to share the process I go through to process my images to be posted at NewReleaseTuesday.com as well as here at CollidePhoto.

Point & Shoot Concert Photography

I got a number of folks asking me about how to take better concert photo’s with their point & shoot camera’s so instead of having to try to answer everyone individually I thought I’d just post about it.

It’s really hard to be able to speak specifically about any particular P&S as they are so very different from one another and keep getting better and better.. as a matter of fact there are a couple of P&S that are out there that are as good as some of the entry level Dslr.. I’m told the Nikon CoolPix P7000 is really unbelievable at about 500 bucks.. anyway what I thought I’d do is just give you some idea’s and approaches on how to set you camera to get the most out of it. ….these thoughts as  just generalities not “gospel”

So grab a notebook, so you can keep track of the changes you made and lets get started. (That way you can always set them back if you need to).

The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!

sorry, if you don’t get the title reference.. if you didn’t, it comes from an old Steve Martin film called “The Jerk”. (see the youtube clip).. So my brandy new Nikon D7000 showed up at my door yesterday.. and I’m so jazzed! I’ll give you my very first impressions after the jump.

Nikon D7000 Review: By my Fav Concert Photographer

So if any of you have seen my craving for the new Nikon D7000.. Here is a review by one of my favorite concert photographers, Todd Owyoung. This camera is still not in stock in many places and I can’t figure out if it’s just so popular or what the deal is.

How to Photograph Christmas Lights via the Strobist

Being Christmas time I thought I’d share a wonderful post from the Stobist blog on how to best photographs the Christmas lights that will be going up all around. You don’t need a fancy camera..even an iPhone will do. (Photo by Michael DeHaan)

Clicking the headline will take you to the article. Enjoy!

Nikon D7000 Announced.. and it’s SWEET!

I’m soo totally psyched about this announcement!
Nikon announced this before Photokina in Cologne, Germany next week and it’s has generated a ton a buzz. ..and you can’t even buy it yet.

Focus Baby, focus

As a new comer to the concert photo scene I have had to learn alot… and fast (still do).
3 songs in the pit doesn’t allow for much time to learn as you go.. normally it’s not till afterwords when you think you have great shots start downloading them for post-production and realize you didn’t do as well as you thought. Been there..done that…got the tee-shirt…