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Instagram @music’s first Monthly Hashtag Project: #MHPlive

Monthly Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @music on Instagram.

Today we’re launching our first Monthly Hashtag Project on @music, a series featuring challenges with designated themes and hashtags. This month’s challenge is #MHPlive.

The goal this month is to make creative images of a live musical performance. Our project takes inspiration from Sacha Lecca (@sachalecca), Deputy Photo Editor at Rolling Stone who has photographed bands including The Black Keys, The Allman Brothers Band, Kasabian and others.

Lecca learned to shoot, process and print black-and-white film at a young age from his father, a former member of a Romanian rock band. “That stayed with me, so even now I still shoot BW,” explained Lecca. Although Lecca’s profession allows him to spend time with musicians offstage, the goal of this project is to make interesting pictures of a live show without special access. “Since we live in an age where we communicate more and more with images, often shared via social media, it’s hard to imagine being anywhere without someone taking photos. The challenge is to come up with something really great and unique out of a situation where you might have limited time and have many other photographers right along side you shooting the very same thing.”

Lecca offers these tips:

• “Arrive early. This might sound obvious but it’s a best practice if you want to be closer to the artist.”
• “Keep your attention on the band during the quiet, in-between moments. There might be a gesture or an exchange between the band of some kind, the tuning of a guitar, a sip of a beer, etc. that may make for a unique shot that might otherwise be missed.”
• “Don’t just shoot the performance … it could be fans arriving or in line outside, it could be the empty venue after the show, and anything in between.”

PROJECT RULES: Please add the #MHPlive hashtag only to photos and videos taken this month and only submit your own. If you include music in your video submissions, please only use music to which you own the rights. Any tagged image or video taken this month is eligible to be featured. Finally, please respect an artist’s wishes if they ask not to be photographed or recorded.

by via Instagram Blog