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Anonymous
Hey /p/, just a quick question.

Would it be advantageousness to use a lens hood when taking gig photography at concerts? Instead of stopping the sun making glare, stopping stage lighting glare?
>> Anonymous
it would be advantageous if you killed yourself
>> Anonymous
Great. Tried to save a photothread from the spam only to have it bumped off the board by a faggot asking stupid questions about hoods.
>> Anonymous
>>292460
im sorry for asking a /p/ related question.
>> Anonymous
>>292460

idiotic gear thread killing the thread the photothread during this seems rather amusing and borderline ironic
>> Anonymous
Ok, so im a newb. Is it a good idea to use one or not?

fuck sake this is so hard.
>> Anonymous
>>292462

just try it you idiot. do you need to ask online every time if you should wipe your ass or take a breath? don't people experiment or think for themselves any more? a moron like you shouldn't be using a camera.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>292463
The set of /p/ thread types is not just {Gear, Pictures}. This is not a gear thread. This is a technique thread--an oft-overlooked genus of /p/ thread, and one which I think might be near to if not equal to picture threads in terms of worth to the community.

>>292457
Yes.

Okay, maybe this particular one wasn't that great. But you see what I mean, right?
>> Anonymous
>>292466
I don't want to take fuck loads of kit to a gig, space is a premium and i can't be fucked messing about with putting things on and off and putting it in a bag and screwing things on in low light.

jesus fucking christ.
trolled.
>> Jeremo !iKGMr61IHM
i use the hood on my 17-55 at all times, because it tends to flare whenever, wherever.

Lens hood is also good protection... the amount of times i've knocked into something that would have scratched my lens had it not been the hood...

Four
>> Anonymous
there is no advantageousness to using a lens hood in this situation other than it make you look /p/ro.
>> Anonymous
lens flare will make your pics more artistic.

FACT
>> Anonymous
>>292540
Thats reason enough for me.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>292540
Because stage lights are optically incapable of causing lens flare, amirite?

I've had more issues with lens flare when shooting around bright lights indoors than I have when shooting outside with the sun. A lens hood very much will help in this situation.
>> Anonymous
>>292564
lies

show proof
>> Anonymous
>>292552
only if you add it in photoshop!
Seriously though, shooting places with tons of bright point sources of light, lens hoods can be totally awesome. In any case, it wouldn't hurt.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>292588
See
>>292551
>>292549
>>292547

Technically not indoors, but same sort of situation. Lots of little point light sources to cause flare rather than the one big point light source in the sky that you're unlikely to point your camera at.
>> Vincent !!8LCSE0Zp1mL
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>>292588
Not that the lens hood would have helped here, but flare from stage lights can be NASTY

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>> else !L6xabslN96
>>292603
i wanna see what infra-red photography at a laser show looks like.
>> Vincent !!8LCSE0Zp1mL
Pretty boring I would assume, artificial lighting under IR tends to be very low contrast,
I assume the lasers / spotlights would be close to the same as incandescent and tungsten lightbulbs
>> Anonymous
>>292607

Would the laser light even show up if the laser beam was not in the infra-red spectrum?
>> Anonymous
>>292603
lens hoods don't block light that's shining DIRECTLY INTO THE LENS.

They don't help at concerts because the only lights that will cause flare are shining directly at the lens anyhow, so a hood doesn't really help.

I keep a hood on my 70-200 when I shoot concerts though, if something goes wrong and you drop your camera lens first, at least your hood will take some of the force.
>> Anonymous
>>292697
caveat: didn't really read your post, sorry. thought you meant a hood WOULD have prevented that.
>> Vincent !!8LCSE0Zp1mL
>>292670
No, but they probably are also in the infrared spectrum, the Filter in front of my sensor blocks all light below 720nm. However there is still some visible red spectrum that we can see in and around that range...
>> Anonymous
I keep the hood on my lenses most of the time, especially when I'm at some kind of event where there's a lot of potential to have things banging around. I'd rather break a $20 (or $50 or whatever it costs for my 70-200VR) hood than an expensive front element, and it helps keep dust, various crap (little bits of tire are hell when shooting drifting), and even fingers, (Sometimes it's necessary to just grab the front end and yank the whole package in close to protect it) off the lens.
>> Anonymous
>>292711
I think you mean above 760nm. Go lower than that and you're going from red into blue. Just pointing out a small technical issue. You're right though about how it functions.
>> Vincent !!8LCSE0Zp1mL
>>292831
I mean my filter is rated at 720nm. however I was just saying there is some cross over in the dark red area of what the Camera sees and what we can see with the naked eye.