Letters

In previous letters I've included some tips and tricks I've learned as a novice using an $80.00 camera to take pictures of KISS in concert. The pics I included were more artsy, like the kind you would see in a general interest magazine. I am a KISS fan. I've watched KISS videos over and over. I used to buy every rock magazine I could get my hands on (except RS). I have a "KISS" tattoo on my left shoulder and a KISS license plate. I'm not a photographer with high quality equipment and a bucket list. As KISS fans, we kind of know what KISS is going to do and when they are going to do it. Which makes us the best people qualified to take KISS conert pics. Which leads me to this pic I took at the Mansfield, MA (Boston) show on August 7, 2010. Granted, I took it from smack dab in the middle of 2nd row. A nearly optimal place to be to take concert pics. The only alterations I make to any of my pics is to crop them. This is the cropped version of this pic. Tommy is playing the solo to "Shock Me". This is a "meat and potatoes" live KISS pic. The kind of thing we might have had as a poster on our wall, or maybe still do. The lesson here is: Just because you only have an $80.00 camera doesn't mean you can't get great live KISS pics. What you lack in equipment you can make up for in knowledge. It's not what you have, but how you use it. Literally.