Some shots from RENT - The musical (schonell theater)

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Some shots from RENT - The musical (schonell theater)

Postby vort on Sun May 07, 2006 1:28 pm

Took these pics last night at the closing of RENT.
Will put more info later, must run /posts pics!

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Postby sheepie on Sun May 07, 2006 9:34 pm

Lovely use of available light in very difficult conditions :)

Would like to see some EXIF data, and some more pics when you get a chance :)
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Postby avkomp on Sun May 07, 2006 9:43 pm

good use of available light

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Postby vort on Sun May 07, 2006 9:55 pm

sheepie wrote:Lovely use of available light in very difficult conditions :)

Would like to see some EXIF data, and some more pics when you get a chance :)


Thanks mate.

If you click on the pictures it will take you to flickr where you can view the exif on the bottom right :)
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Postby ABG on Mon May 08, 2006 10:03 am

As Sheepie and Steve have already said, great use of natural light. Very nice.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon May 08, 2006 10:41 am

Nice work, was there any issues getting your camera into the show ?
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Postby wendellt on Mon May 08, 2006 11:11 am

excellent, theatre is great subject matter.
I would love to get into theatre photography
how did you manage to get a camera in there and shoot
did you know someone?
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Postby vort on Mon May 08, 2006 1:46 pm

Explanation:

This was the second time I saw the show. The first time, they said "No flash photography". So obviously I figured that meant it was fine to photograph it as long as you don't use a a flash.

To be sure, however, I rang the administration up before going the second time, and I was told that no photography is allowed at all - period - due to the issue of copyright.

Nonetheless, on the night I decided to take my camera anyway. It was at the University of Queensland so it wasn't a huge production. It was a student production, however a high quality one at that!

So I took the camera in with no problems. Again, at the beginning, it was said no flash photography was allowed, so I took some pics anyway. Some of the cast actually gave me some dirty stares while I was taking pictures so I decided not to whip the camera out too much, and as such I only took around 7-8 photos, this 3 being the best of the bunch.

I've wanted to shoot theatre for ages and I'm happy with what I got here even though it was minimal :)
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon May 08, 2006 1:52 pm

Thanks for the explaination, interesting how the sign and official stance are different, seems to be the case a lot with these type of productions.

Good on you for taking the camera and making some shots, shame you felt you couldn't take more.
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Postby wendellt on Mon May 08, 2006 1:57 pm

oh that ewxplains it it was a school production i thought you went to the real production of RENT, i was wondering if you did how you managed to photograph it

Theatre photography is so hard to get into they are so tight!!

great job anyway considerign the circumstances
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Postby vort on Mon May 08, 2006 2:03 pm

wendellt wrote:oh that ewxplains it it was a school production i thought you went to the real production of RENT, i was wondering if you did how you managed to photograph it

Theatre photography is so hard to get into they are so tight!!

great job anyway considerign the circumstances


Oh it wasn't a school production.

But it wasn't the real production, as in, broadway :)

It was an actual production with very talented singers/actors from the the universities/etc. Don't be fooled by 'student production' :)
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Postby Raskill on Mon May 08, 2006 2:05 pm

If you have a local entertainment centre run by the Council or a private firm, approach them and make a deal with them. That you can photograph productions on stage and you will supply images to them at a reasonable rate for publicity. I'm in the process of organising this deal just now with my local council and it looks like it will be a win/win situation.
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