One lesson learned at this outing was to fire off more shots than usual… I took a huge batch of pictures. I also learned that waiting for the right light, or in this case spotlight, is key. It was quite a rush to continually look left, right, up, down and even behind to see where the lighting engineer was presenting me the best shots. And since each only lasted a second, my heart was racing. After some trial and error with my zoom lens, I switched to my 50mm prime lens. Even with the occasional spotlight moment, the setting was generally dark. The 1.8 aperture of the prime lens helped relative to the f4 aperture of my zoom lens.
I remembered a tip someone once gave me about turning around while taking pictures… sometimes what’s behind you is even more interesting. Now, that might not make sense at a live rock show, but the crowd was up to the task of hanging right there with the bands – Daddy Issues, Tiny Moving Parts, and punk vets The Menzingers.
Please take a look above and below for the greatest hits.
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