Idolator

One would think that, what with this being the era of the ever-hoisted cameraphone, musicians and their "people" would encourage professional photographers to spend as much time angling for the perfect—or, at the very least, not pixelated!—shot as they possibly could. But one would be wrong; for example, photogs working Saturday night's Stevie Wonder show at Madison Square Garden were apparently only allowed to shoot the first five to 10 seconds of Stevie's entrance and the first 60 seconds of his first song before they had to get up and out. And photographers at other shows have noticed that the time they're given to shoot shows has gone down, even as restrictions on the masses bringing in their own cameras have been loosened: More »