In my previous blog post, I discussed how photography can help promote club events. It turns out that event photography can benefit other kinds of businesses or organisations.
A few weeks back, I covered the Edinburgh City Singers’ summer concert at St Cuthbert church. While it is perfectly fine to use a flash and freely move about in a nightclub, this was not possible when photographing the choir during their performance. Therefore I had to use the available light in the church and do the best possible job given the circumstances.
Edinburgh City Singers is a new choir that started in January 2014. It offers a singing outlet to anyone who wants to get involved. The photographs of their concert will help them in many different ways.
Good photographs make the organisation look professional. The pictures show the visitors to their website and Facebook page what their concerts are like, and encourage them to join the organisation.
The photographs also preserve the memories of the event for the current singers and the members of the band. For this reason I tried to take a wide variety of shots to get as complete a coverage of the event as possible.
It is always important to look for other points of view so that your event photographs don’t look the same as those taken by the people in the audience. I was able to get some pictures of the choir and the band from the balcony that could not have been taken from the church’s floor.
I was ultimately able to deliver over eighty photographs of the concert to the choir .
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