A while back I bought tickets to see Regina Spektor. I didnt plan on going with people (since most of my friends didnt like her too much haha) but yeah, I don’t think you need to goto a gig with friends. If you like a band, its perfectly fine to just go on your own. Not that going with friends makes the experience any better. I only talk to my friends BEFORE and AFTER the gig anyway so it makes sense that going to gigs on your own is fine.
Anyway, I managed to get my camera back from B, I couldnt bring my DSLR camera because Astoria seemed to have a pretty strict camera policy so bring that was tempting fate.
I was getting more and more excited with band photography, I even use my compact camera alot more effectively then before. I’ve been using the shutter priority modes more to capture the right shots and to reduce the amount of blur from the photos.
The beginning of the gig was funny, Regina was singing solo and the photographers were going nuts at her. It was pretty funny. At the end, Regina gave a no no to the photographers at the pit, she was camera shy hehe. Plus it is a bit distracted when you’re playing piano and singing with 7 photographers snapping photos of you rapidly.
This is where you begin to find a line between whether or not photo pit is better (since you are limited to a few songs) or is it better to just goto the front and all.
Regina Spektor was amazing, its definitely something you have to see live once. She had a grand piano going on and played quite a varied setlist, including songs from all albums and some B sides. She brought in her backing band at some songs and they were pretty fun. Some songs were just piano and singing whilst some were full on. She was very bubbly and occasionly made girlish mistakes. She stopped a few times because of piano feedback (”Pianos dont even have feedback, thats how rock and roll I am”) and once when she had hair on her hand and it was bugging her hehe.
It felt like she was a princess, first shoo’ing the cameramen away and now stopping songs whenever she felt bothered. It was all in a cutesy type way though, makes you wonder if she does it on purpose haha.
Anyway, the night was pretty amazing and I managed to take some decent photos.
The security guards were really annoying, I wasn’t using flash throughout the gig and yet he comes and picks on me for taking photos and using flash. It got to a point where whenever someone was using flash, I’d just hold my camera down and sarcastically show that I’m not taking photos. Though who would take photos with flash anyway, the lighting in the gig was perfectly adequate in taking nice photos and all
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