Sick of people with cameras at concerts...

I am tired of it too. How many fuzzy pics on your camera phone does one person need?

Originally posted by phillidan:
I have an idea that might work, at least for people who just want the photos. (I understand that people photographing the show for artistic purposes might need an exception…
How about hiring an official club photographer, who will share the photos online? If necessary, charge a very small fee for access to them, then ban other cameras. Maybe too much of a pain to enforce, but I would love to have good photos of the shows I attend without the hassle of doing it myself, and without fighting for floor space with the "rock-arazzi".

that might work for the people who just want to rememeber the show. but a true artist wants a og. photograph that cant just be bought by the masses.

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
then a camera phone ban maybe required.

Yeah - good luck with that - trying to ban 1000 phones every night.

i realize that which is why the situation will get worse before it gets better…. at one point the club was taking away cellphone cameras upon entrance, but since it's become something people just can't live without then common sense needs to kick in… :roll:

i remember all the complaining recently when movie theater owners were considering installing mobile phone blocking technology, how it would prevent someone on call from getting that all important phone call, etc. thing is at one point doctors, etc would check-in, leave a pager, etc with a theater who would then go to that person's seat in case of an emergency. now granted that isn't feasible at the 9:30 club, but people functioned without cellphones for decades, why can't people do it now for a couple hours.

take a couple pictures and put it away… oh wait that makes to much sense..

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
Do most phone really come with a camera on them?

i'll humour you.


yeah, probably about half of them do. mine doesnt. and my GF wanted one so i bought her one and aside from taking like 4 pics at the White Stripes show last fall (the day after we got the thing) i dont think either of us have used it since.

Isn't the real issue here that a dude just flat out should not be that into James Blunt??

Clearly, the answer is for the club to ban Asians.

Just a guess, but a "true artist" probably wouldn't take pictures with a camera phone.

Originally posted by definitivedoodle:

Originally posted by phillidan:
I have an idea that might work, at least for people who just want the photos. (I understand that people photographing the show for artistic purposes might need an exception…
How about hiring an official club photographer, who will share the photos online? If necessary, charge a very small fee for access to them, then ban other cameras. Maybe too much of a pain to enforce, but I would love to have good photos of the shows I attend without the hassle of doing it myself, and without fighting for floor space with the "rock-arazzi".

that might work for the people who just want to rememeber the show. but a true artist wants a og. photograph that cant just be bought by the masses.

clearily the answer is all artists are required to perform in fans houses…

I don't see what the big deal with people taking photos at concerts are… there are a million things I can think of more annoying than that.

I mean, let's face it, you've gotta start from the baseline that people are annoying just by virtue of being there.

On the other hand, this seems like a good opportunity to pimp my photo blog. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexdc

or to go see shows in Baltimore

since everyone in Baltimore is too busy shooting heroin or contracting STDS in the bathroom to be taking pictures and even if they werent , the dirty filthy air is too thick to get a good shot anyway ;)q

Originally posted by monoceros:
…like the 930 club is going to "flashy thing us"(men in black) as we leave the concert…never to remember the concert again…

Hmmm maybe you're not 21 but errr um I think there's been plenty of times people have not remembered the concert after a night of drinking at the 930 Club.

My little camera phone happens to get pretty damn good quality pics at 2 megapixels which is the same as my bulky digital camera. So, why carry around the extra thing to worry about?

Kosmo you're right because camera phones are getting more and more higher quality res. on them. I just saw a Samsung that does 10 megapixels :)

MindCage
Mindless Faith
Deep6 Productions

maybe they just need to setup picture taker sections, like they do for tapers in the back of the club… then confiscate cameras from those breaking the rules…

and it is a annoying going to a show and seeing a sea of blue glowing objects hoisted in the air for the entire show… it would be less of a problem if people took one or two pictures and be done with it… unless you are a Madonna concert what the bands is wearing at the beginning of the show isn't likely to change until the encore… they might get a little sweat drenched.

My problem with the photographers, is that they will stick their arms up in the air to get that shot. But it takes them 5 minutes blocking everyones view to do so. Very very annoying.

For pro photography the club usually just lets the photographer take pictures for the first song or three, then no more. Maybe the same rule with the camera phones. Let it be known at the door if you are caught taking flash shots (non flash don't really stick out) after that point your phone will be confiscated. That might work but might piss people off more than the amount it saves in flashes. Again, people have to realize how to work with others, they are not the only one at the concert.

Originally posted by Mike Rohsopht:
or to go see shows in Baltimore

since everyone in Baltimore is too busy shooting heroin or contracting STDS in the bathroom to be taking pictures and even if they werent , the dirty filthy air is too thick to get a good shot anyway ;)q

Not at the Hellacopters show. It was like having tv screens of the band in front of me all night.

Originally posted by Sir HC:

Originally posted by Mike Rohsopht:
or to go see shows in Baltimore

since everyone in Baltimore is too busy shooting heroin or contracting STDS in the bathroom to be taking pictures and even if they werent , the dirty filthy air is too thick to get a good shot anyway ;)q

Not at the Hellacopters show. It was like having tv screens of the band in front of me all night.

everything is on tv!

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Clearly, the answer is for the club to ban Asians.

why are you always so snide and intolerant towards xenophobes? it's not like they chose to be idiots, it's just a combination of nature and nurture

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Clearly, the answer is for the club to ban Asians.

…wow. made my day, right there. you did.


i have a cameraphone with really a very good camera, but i pretty much stopped taking pics with it at shows because i came accross some pictures on websites of the artists where i could see my cell phone. and then, i felt horribly like That Guy, and realized it was ridiculous.

as for other people taking pictures at concerts…what's it to you? yeah, it's kind of annoying when people stick their arms in the air for ten minutes trying to get a good shot, but most people don't do that. if i need to go up, i'll do it for a couple of seconds. i've gotten a ton of really cool, powerful photographs at concerts and i enjoy taking pictures of artists.

also, flashes really aren't always necessary.
i've been to some shows where the pictures turned out much better without the flash on, just due to all the colored lighting that the club already provides.

if you guys really want to complain; go to a show with the Cobrasnake. he is ALL up in everyone's grill, and he isn't using a little digital camera, either…it's this huge thing. but he's awesome and takes great pictures, so you know what? more power to him.

music is a form of artistic expression, as is photography, and i'm really surprised at how intolerant some people on here are of people that are just trying to take quality pictures.

Originally posted by you be betty:

music is a form of artistic expression, as is photography, and i'm really surprised at how intolerant some people on here are of people that are just trying to take quality pictures.

there is no end to the intolerance of some people on this board. :)

Originally posted by you be betty:
also, flashes really aren't always necessary.
i've been to some shows where the pictures turned out much better without the flash on, just due to all the colored lighting that the club already provides.

There's nothing worse than band photos taken with flash period. Unless you know how to adjust the shutter speeds, etc they're going to look like a band playing at the Goldstein's Bar Mitzvah.

Here is a perfect example of killer photos taken with and without flash at shows. Sure, I'm pimping her work out because she does good work and there's also pics of me :) She's taken pics at the 930 club on numerous occassions as well.

MindCage
Mindless Faith
Deep6 Productions

Photography is almost always better without flashes….