>>4194235Is there a balance between artsy and more practical shots when you're hired to shoot a band? Should most of the photos be pretty straightforward? My background coming into concert photography is as an artist and professional musician, so my natural inclination is to compose the shit out of every photo, but maybe that's distracting for artists who just want, like, school yearbook style band photos? I've read some guides that say try to get something like ten pics of the full band and then three of each member.. is that a rule of thumb for show photography? A club stage with five musicians makes it really hard to find an angle where you can see the drummer through everyone else.. so, idunno, is that just the way the cookie crumbles for drummers?
Also, all the local/regional bands I hang around edit the *shit* out of all of their pictures- like multiple layers of picsart filters to make everything all lo-fi and grim or oversaturated blurry indie shit- so, does it make sense to send a band two folders of pics- 1 set that I crop and edit and have ready for the magazine, and another basically just cropped unedited set for them to bake to a crisp?
