Any photographers here have some tips on basic shooting in low light situations? What kind of gear do you use?

I want to become better at shooting in lowlight but need some tips, anyone have advice with lowlight concert photography without a flash?

Yeah, well put me on some guestlists so I can practice and you might start seeing some decent concert photos from me, I've been reading a lot and just invested in a better lens which is faster and can open up really wide so I don't have to use the flash. Just need to learn more about settings and such

I'm hoping it arrives for the show this friday so I can start practicing

Well, you can lower the time needed for the shutter to stay open by using a larger aperature, By opening the arperture more and alowing more light in, u reduce the amonut of time needed to take a well exposed picture with out having shake or blur as a factor. Also try a subtle preflash, something to put some light other there to reflect back, but not like an actual flash that just completly reflects. try to get the camera set up so that light from lights is used but the highlight (or bulb) of the light is not in the shot to prevent burning the image out in that spot of the spectrum. hope that helps!

best practical advice i can give is invest money in good lenses with low f-stop. stick with minimal zoom lenses or primary lenses. as for flash just be very careful because it can/will really really flat out your image, mess around with the angle of the flash and look at the lightings in the room then decide to whether you want to use flash or not.

http://www.myspace.com/kizmiaz_ ask her about any photography questions shes done alot of shows for me and she takes amazing pics. She'll be taking pics for us on thursday too. If you go to her pics on her myspace you can see alot of her work at our shows.