Photography Tutorials

Photography tutorials by NYC music photographer Todd Owyoung, with an emphasis on shooting events with available light at high ISO.

Pros & Cons of Using Lens Hoods For Music Photography

Lens hoods and concert photography. We take a look a the pros and cons of using that extra...

A discussion of concert photography and copyright. Keeping control over your images, rights-grabs, contracts, and who owns what....

Between crowd surfers, security, and other photogs all jockeying for space, the photo pit may seem like a...

So, you want to shoot concerts? Given the shooting constraints of concert photography, from song limits to bad...

People often ask me for advice on photographing concerts. I get questions ranging from which lenses to use,...

In part one of this series, I covered my basic four-step approach to determining exposure that might otherwise...

Between the dim, monochrome washes of basement dives and the explosive lighting of arena shows, achieving the correct...

I've added a FAQ page that touches on a few of the more recurrent questions I receive about...