Chamber Music photographs

[opalmirror]

I've posted on flashless rock show photography before several times, but today (pending permission to share images) I am going to write on my first experience photographing some chamber music. It was fun. I learned some new skills and techniques, and recognized limitations of equipment I had missed before

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[trolleypup]

Yup. Classical music performances are amazingly quiet...especially when you want to actually take a photograph. Heck, a (wrapped and disguised DAT Walkman starting is audible several feet away. Back when I was bootlegging images, I glued together about a dozen foam kneeling pads and hollowed them out to make a two part enclosure I could live with soundwise...braced, and triggered with the wired remote, I got images good enough to design t-shirts off of

[imzadi]

What a neat opportunity! I would dread the camera noise in a quiet place, though. It's been a long time since I've been in a position like that and I feel like a dork every time I make a noise.

Did you share the photos with the staff?

I don't think I realized that there was a such thing as photographers who specialize in performances like that and have sound silencing equipment for their cameras! Wow!