Properly photographing theater and concerts - the best tips

In this practical photography tip, we will show you the best tips for atmospheric photography of theater and concerts.

The most important photo tip: switch off automatic exposure for concerts and theater

The differences between brightly lit and dark areas are very large on theater and concert stages. We therefore recommend that you experiment with manually set time and aperture values.

• Try out different settings and feel for the correct exposure of the crucial parts of the picture. These can be actors or musicians, for example.
• The bracketing function is also helpful here: If it is active, the camera takes several shots and varies the exposure as previously defined - for example, that every third aperture is underexposed and overexposed.

Further tips: How to stage the concert properly

• It is important that the cover is not opened too far. So you still have enough reserve with the depth of field.
• At the same time, the exposure time must be short enough, otherwise your photos will blur. In addition to a fast lens, we recommend high light sensitivities from 1, 600 ISO.
• A tripod also helps you to stage actors and stage objects properly. We present the 20 best photo tripods in this CHIP article.
• Tip: Movements of the actors can also be a design element: So here you can play with blurring to get dynamics into the picture.

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