QUES: pictures of classical musicians live

[Tom J]

Hello. Are there any books of examples of good photographs of string
ensemble and chamber music performances actually playing in low-light
situations? How about some advice.
There is where I am:
As a volunteer I took some blurry pictures in low-light of a live
performance with a digital camera with flash turned off. I didn't
want to distract the performers or audience with a flash. The
pictures are blurry due to motion because the automatic exposure
(something I've never used before, I'm used to setting everything)
selected long exposures. Also the camera did not correctly detect the
color temperature until about the tenth photograph; the pictures are
yellow.
My proposed solution:
1. Improve the still-life content by using a tripod holding the
camera still during playing, well, all the time. People might still
be blurry.
1.5 Take pictures when the players aren't moving very much, in slow movements
and on the last note just before the baton drops.
2. Use a flash during ovations and entrances.
3. Set the color temperature to tungsten when.
4. Set ISO to ASA 400 (that's what it says on the camera, but ISO and
ASA are two different standards, never mind)
5. read the camera instructions again.

What other advice do you have for photographing live performances, and
why don't these organizations hire photographers, are they that
expensive?

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Tom J.; tej at world.std.com Massachusetts USA; MSCS; Systems Programmer
Dist. Real-Time Data Acquisition S/W for Science and Eng. under POSIX,
C, C++, X, Motif, Graphics, Audio http://world.std.com/~tej

[zeitgeist]

tripod is the best thing, shoot when they are at that appex at the top
of their stroke, can you change to black and white mode? asa and iso is
the same thing just different names (american standards assoc and
international standards org.)

but for chamber music, I would photograph a dress rehearsal, or warm
ups.

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