Rock EXPLOSION!!

following on from last night's gig pic...


After four and half hours snapping very loud rock musicians and getting pushed and prodded around by an increasingly boisterous - OK, drunk - crowd, one can find yourself experimenting a little...

This is Martin Lawler, of band Whitmore - and here is the 6 minute video shot in HD of them right at the end of the entire gig, from the back of the stage. I've been trying to upload it to YouTube but it's hit a gremlin and stopped loading and the original HD file is 1gb...The D7000 is great for video but is tiring doing it, holding the camera steady and concentrating for that length of time. The Tamron SP 17-50mm at f2.8 proves really adept for such.

In the video, you can see clearly the heaving and jostling crowd and bouncers stopping them from jumping up onto the stage. Under their feet is a sea of various spilt liquids and crushed plastic beer 'glasses'. Not easy.

It was from there that I took this and I just did a slight zoom with the lens. It's not an image that you'd put up for publication and when presenting your images to a band, just one, maximum, rockers just love to see themselves clearly in promotional shots!! I had some very nice against the light moody shots but wanted to show you here a rather different approach and technique.

I spent most of the day tagging and cataloguing the images as well as uploading vids and images on Facebook. The big edit will start in the morning. This event, like all New Year's Eve celebrations were by ticket only and costly at that and I'd never have been able to afford to get in otherwise and it is of course a pleasure to have so much material to practice on and photograph. The venue, the organiser, the bands and a publication are all after these pics now, so I must do my part....