Photography Revealed

for one its blurry when you don’t use the flash because the shutter has to stay open longer because the lack of light, you can try to turn up the ISO or change the shutter speed manually but you might end up with a under exposed image

also I would step back a bit, I think you photos are a little to close and it would be nicer to get some shots further back, and try not to take shots straight on, try to take them at a angle.

Not bad. The is always room to improve but no bad at all. One, use angles to your advantage. Two, try to keep the pic from having the microphone directly in front of the person singing. Try a couple of shots of, let say the drummer, where you will want to use the flash but put the shutter on a lower speed like 1/15 or 1/8 - Fire the camera so the flash will fire but keep a tight hand on the camera as the slow speed will blur parts of the picture. Has a nice effect. As stated, try to put the flash on a flash holder separate from the camera. It will help with the lighting. Get some close-ups of the hands playing the guitar. Use some Black and White film as well. Try to find a way to be above the band so you are shooting down. Explore every angle you can.

Please take no offense of any of the criticism. I’m an amateur photographer myself, and I’ve taken a couple of classes at the community college. I mostly use film cameras and my ever trusted digital one, haha. You don’t seem to have a knack for capturing a moment, or playing with the camera settings (I’m quite aware that you said it was stuck on auto-focus, try a camera shop, see if they can fix it cheap?) I usually don’t believe in editing the photos basically because if you do, it’s not really your photo anymore, it’s more, well, a crappy photo edited to look slightly better. Idk a lot of the shots looks forced as if you were just doing the job to do it. That’s not very fun photography. Try experimenting with your camera. I own 4 cameras, my digital (got it two months ago, i’m quite in love with it