have to agree about lack of time, when I shoot in a major stadium show or festival headliner we are nowadays lucky if we get 3 songs. I know at Leeds last weekend for Radiohead the pros could only shoot from the left hand side of the pit, Kings Of leon I think we where allowed just 2 songs & the light for song 1 terrible!!!!

I guess access also makes a difference, for example the NME photographers get on stage access which already gives them an advantage to other pro shooters.

I shoot professionally with Samsung, I have an agent & my images are published in the music press & online music website, my assignments this year have included Glastonbury Festival, V Festival & last weekends Leeds Festival.

I get to meet a lot of fellow pro music photographers in the press pit & the press tents at these festivals. I very rarely get asked what equipment I use, when I do get asked, fellow pros are very interested in the Samsung camera particularly the DA* 50-135mm lens I frequently use. Maybe music photography is different to other photography I don't know, but the majority of music togs are very friendly & swap a lot of tips & information. The only time I have had problems was at Glastonbury when there where a lot of press / journalist photographers who had no idea how to act in a photo pit or any manners & jumped in front of you to get a shot or most frowned upon in the pit, used a flash gun!!!!

As for pro's being better than amateurs there is no argument. I know amateur photographers who earn larger sums doing other jobs who wouldn't dream of becoming a pro tog but that doesn't mean they can't take a good picture.

I do however see a lot of poor pros around who maybe at best are just good with camera.

When I used to be motor mechanic I wasn't a good mechanic because I used Sanp On tools.... It was due to the 5 years of training!!!

Business skills help make your business successful not a better photographer. Photography is a skill learnt by doing & by trying to improve yourself each time.

Just updated but yet to try, didn't think this update was happening to be honest, given the timescale.

I use my GX20 regularly at ISO 1600 for indoor low light music photography & noise is not really an issue as long as correctly exposed.

i used to use my k100d at 1600 also & that was not really a high noise camera but at 3200 it showed a lot of noise.

HTH

Gary

Myself I think people worry to much about image theft, if someone uses your image without your consent then I see it as a compliment, then I hit them with a bill

I watermark my images, but only for advertising purposes.

You could put watermarks & copyright usages etc all over your images, if someone wants to use it, they will use it regardless of what measures you put into place. Its your job to then make sure they pay you for it, thankfully here in the UK county court costs are cheap & with http://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/ it is now very easy to claim any due cash along with the fees.

Non of those near me neither.... bugger!!!

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Sigma 24-70mm f2.8 EX DG Macro (Pentax AF)is available at Jessops website for just £129 however I cannot find any in stock in stores near me, if anyone else has any luck then let us know!!!!

That's a dificult shoot you chose there because of all the mics in the way

Bottom one possibly the best, as you had already croped the end of the guitar of I would have cropped tighter.

I worked Global Gathering Festival last weekend & shot 1200 over 2 days at Glastonbury this year I shot over 2200 over the 5 days, but I did shoot 31 bands!!! Think last time I looked my GX20 had done over 25,000 actuations since June last year.

Netbook is the way to go mine the Advent has built in mobile broadband so just plug in a sim card using the 3g I get 3 to 4 hours of life plus 160gig of HDD space for backup, perfect for me...