Professional concert gig with the NX30

I shoot concerts with my NX30.

I have looked at all of your images in the link you provided.

You requested 'constructive' critique.

I have never understood how the 'student' can know what is 'constructive'.

Perhaps you meant 'polite', and 'polite' my cc in response to your request, will be.

First, the venue you had to work with would have had me pulling my hair out.

No central aisle, as best as I could determine. Piano almost at center stage.

Row lighting at stage left & right, in scene with performers.

Second, this shoot required a Monopod. I always shoot with a monopod.

Third, your images as a group are evidence of a very poor vantage point options due to the venue layout.

For this shoot I would have put my camera on my 12' light stand and used the Android App to shoot various scenes with my tablet. This raises my camera above the audience and at mid body of the performers on stage.

Fourth, I would prefer fixed 1/160 to freeze action, regardless of ISO.

Fifth, Presentation: your album has some completely Out Of Focus images. I would delete them.

It also includes selective focus shots which in my opinion, confuse the image viewer, who wants to look around the scene as captured by your images, they want to look at the other actor's facial expressions, not an out of focus head.

I was looking for some overall venue shots of the concert in progress. These type of shots make it more pleasant to view many body shots, by letting your viewer know where they would be in the scene.

Sixth, due to the venue, your poor vantage points revealed many tilted vertical lines in your images which when viewed as a group/album, the tilted lines are very distracting.

I hope I held to my promise of being polite and constructive.

Often times people respond by getting defensive, which I hope does not occur here.

You captured many shots most photogs would not have been able to capture.

Under the circumstances you did a very good job but there is room for improvement.

I hope you find some of this useful as well as constructive.