Archive for the 'Live Performance' Category

Fixed a few images and finished editing other ones….(old as in ones you have seen before).

From my original posting…..

First, the show ROCKED hard, band was great and seemed to not only have a great sense of humor to go along with their creative anarchy, but to just be some great folks to know.

I was lucky enough to be their guest for the show with a photo pass. Did not get me behind the barrier for some safer close up shots. I shot from within the crowd and off to the sides of the stage.

I shot about 90% of the night with manual focus lenses on my DSLR. I have about 200 shots from Tuesday night to edit, but I wanted to get at least one up tonight.

I do NOT use flash during live performance shoots, it is not how the artist intended for you to see them or the show and it takes away from the feel of a live shot most of the time….in my opinion. In the future I want to have some units I can setup to match the lighting being used by the band so I can get some better shutter speeds at lower ISO’s to cut down on the noise/grain.

Sorry guys no autographs this time around, maybe on some prints from this shoot though :) Otep has a standing invitation to come to my studio for a shoot anytime they are in town.

After Amber and I hung our images at the gallery for the No Envy show we headed over to her work for some dinner. It was open mic night and I just happen to have my camera with me so I started grabbing a few shots. I did not have the lenses I normally use when shooting live performance images but I made do and had some fun.

If any of you musicians from last night want to see the shots, just check back on this post for any links.

Sorry for the delay, they will be up soon!!!