In my experience, it's bloody hard getting people to stop photographing you when you're performing, no matter how you ask. It's very off-putting having all those camera flashes when you're trying to read your words.

It's even harder getting a decent picture of someone performing - they always seem to be grimacing, or have their eyes closed or bob about at the wrong moment. It's far easier to get them to pose beforehand or afterwards.

It's funny how an audience think nothing of clicking away at a folk concert but would hardly dream of doing so in a production of 'The Messiah'.

LTS