I’m going to a music festival Friday-Sunday, and I have passes to be in the photo pit for three songs. My grandma is sending me with her Nikon d3300 to take pictures, but I’ve never really used a camera before, aside from my cell phone. I’ve practiced taking pictures of my cats for the last few days, but I’m sure there’s some settings I will need to adjust for the concert. I have two lenses; an 18-55mm, and a 55-200mm but I only have space to bring one. Does anyone have any tips for me? Should I just ditch the camera and use my cell phone?
Sorry, that’s hardly true in relative terms (Nikon’s 18-55mm is f/3.5-5.6; their 55-200mm is f/4-5.6), and even less true in absolute terms if the 18-55mm is too short and you have to crop (55mm f/5.6 with the 18-55mm means a ~10mm aperture at most, 55mm f/4 with the 55-200mm means a ~14mm aperture that gets even larger as you zoom in further, up to ~36mm at 200mm f/5.6, i.e. almost four stops better than cropping the 18-55mm to the same field of view).