The shoot plan

You have a pass for tonight and about an hour to get ready. Tell this page how big the room is and when the band goes on. It tells you what to put on the body, where to start the exposure, and the times that actually matter. It works for a room in any city — the reasoning is about the size of the room, not where it is.

The room

Any room in any city works — pick the size. The Paris list is only a shortcut for the venues whose capacity we already hold.

The night
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Which of these rooms has a show this week?

That is the part this page cannot answer, and it is the part Liaison is built for: the shows in Paris and the people behind them, in one place. This plan stays free and stays here either way — nothing above asked you for an address.

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Questions

What is the "first three songs" rule?

On most ticketed shows, accredited photographers shoot the first three songs from the photo pit and then leave it. It is a convention rather than a law, and it varies: some tours allow two songs, some allow the whole set, some ask for no flash and nothing else. Whoever hands you the pass tells you which it is that night — ask at the door rather than assuming.

Why does capacity decide the lens?

Because it is the one published number that tracks how far you will be from the stage. A 300-capacity room puts the back wall roughly fifteen metres away, so a wide zoom covers the whole stage and a long lens is dead weight. An arena puts you far enough back that the reverse is true. It is a proxy, not a measurement — but it is a proxy you can look up before you leave the house.

The exposure looks aggressive. Is that right?

It is a starting point chosen to freeze a moving performer, which is the shot people actually keep. Shutter speed is the setting that is hardest to recover from: a sharp frame at a noisy ISO is usable and a smeared frame at a clean ISO is not. Take a frame during the intro, look at the histogram, and move ISO from there.

Do you store what I type?

No. This page has no form submission, no analytics call and no cookie. The plan is built in your browser and the shareable link encodes your inputs in the URL itself — which is why the link works for someone else without anything being stored here.