haha, i have taken a number of conerts... best thing to do... get in touch with the organisers, ie the teachers or student, then ask for permission or smth, its better, then get a rough idea of how the concert gonna go and postion yourself strategically...
Usually, the inbuilt flash shld work fine with ISO 800... most likley problems i faced as unbalanced fill flash (is this a correct term???:bsmilie: ) Try to get a flash unit, preferably SB-800, i believe there shld be some teacher photographers in your sch? try borrowing from them... (tt's wat i do, hehe) remeber to take good care of their flash units.
Don't bother asking the PA/AVA ppl to brighten up the stage, it might mess with your pics... especially if the stage lights are played in motion....(i rmb its called cue) anyway, those idiots will probably be busy with the music, let alone the lights (i was a PA boy b4)
worse comes to worse... get a bunch of flashlights... put them on a stand... and point them towards the stage and ON! :sweat:
O ya, remember to give a copy of the pictures u taken for the concert to the organisers, especially if u are doing freelance work... like me... so they rmb u and call u up nxt time( i don't belong to my college photography club...
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