Daniel suggested I set one of the remote cameras by his china cymbal—and that camera was the one that caught the beauty shot at the moment the pyro went off.

The setup was two D3 bodies, both with 16mm fisheyes [AF Fisheye-NIKKOR 16mm f/2.8D], both on Bogen magic arms; one to Daniel's left, one to his right. I had two PocketWizards, set to different frequencies, and at one point as Daniel played I had one in each hand and played the remote cameras to his movements and the drive of the music. I had the band's pyro list, knew when the fireworks would go off and knew how the show was choreographed. I was firing the cameras with the backbeat and with his emphasis and punctuation. At one point I followed his drum sweep left to right with the cameras.

Whew!

The remote cameras were set for 2500 ISO and center-weighted metering, and I chose to shoot high res JPEGs rather than NEF so I wouldn't outpace the buffer; I was thinking in terms of bursts of images, not single shots. I used aperture priority (at f/8, based on pre-concert testing) because I didn't care if the shutter rolled to really fast or slightly slow; slow might make for a very cool image and some variety. If I'd locked in 1/500 or 1/1000 second, all the photos would have the same frozen motion look; blur can work. To be sure the bright lights didn't blow out too often, I dialed in -1 exposure compensation on both cameras.

I used a 16-gig card in each camera's main slot and an eight-gig in the second slot for overflow. Grand total: 2,607 images on one remote camera, 4,248 on the other.

My only problem is, of course, a question: How am I going to make it different next time?

Bass solo? I don't think so.