Oh guys! It's been a long while! I know, i suck!
There's been a heap of concerts since the last photostrip - most of which you'll find easily over on coolibri.de!
It's a new month, so a new mission to blog regularly has begun!!!
First up this month, the visit of British nearly-old-timers Depeche Mode to Cologne! Enjoy! Please leave a comment if you have time!
Sometimes, shit gets weird. Last Wednesday was one such night!
Here's the pictures!
Finally a fellow Englishman in the house again!
Sunday night took me back to the Luxor in Cologne to see Alex Clare in action! That guys voice is crazy good! Here's the pics! Thanks for looking!
Supporting Avenged Sevenfold last week in Düsseldorf, Disturbed had a good shot at stealing the show!! Plenty of fire and metal here!!
A change of genre for me last week! Something more heavier on the cards, but man, these guys were incredible to shoot! Could photograph this band again and again!!
Last Wednesday saw me heading back to the Lanxess Arena, this time to shoot Kings of Leon.
I had high hopes for this one, but it turned out to be a nightmare! Very low light and not allowed to move around the stage due to TV cameras! 7 photographers, all with the same crap pictures!! Here's mine!!
Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro returned to Germany this month supporting their lastest album 'Ellipsis'. A magical evening, and a set-list stuffed full of of fan-favourites! Here's the photos guys, enjoy!
The Naked and Famous are currently touring Europe supporting the release of their most recent album 'Simple Forms'.
I shot the bands Cologne performance for Coolibri Magazine, and also managed to get a backstage shoot with the groups singer Alisa.
Here's the photos from the show. Enjoy!
Any photographer will know that feeling... You got the composition right, had your exposure all set hit the shutter, and walk away with the shot in the bag. Until... you get home, get the images off of your memory card to find the big shot of your shoot was off - you missed focus.
This, of course may not have been down to you - such cases usually are, but heres a case where one shot that i missed wasn't necessarily down to me!
The image below is Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, shot on 30.01.17 in Cologne. I knew this moment was coming. Billie was already starting to sprint along the stage runway back to the stage.
My metering was set. My focus was tracking him. Locked and loaded.
His feet leave the floor. The lighting totally changes and that's it! The camera freaks out. It has a split second to decipher the new levels of contrast it's now seeing on the subject it's tracking - and in the split second that i press the shutter, focus hasn't been totally re-aquired. The microphone stand that came into the foreground may have confused things further. Shame. But these things happen. This would have been THE shot of the night. But hey, there were a bucket load of great shots!
I've come across pro's that would still use a great shot even if the focus was missed and it wasn't quite sharp. I was torn myself, but decided against it in the end.
What would you have done? Use or lose?
Let me know in the comments!
Hey guys!!
So, last week i shot Green Day live in Cologne. A sold out arena awaited the California rockers, and rock they did! They tore the place up!!!
Check out my photos from the show here:
See you again soon!!!
Guys!! It's been forever!!
Sorry it's taken so long to get a post up in 2017 - things have been so busy! Anyway! Thanks to my friends over at Monkeypress for getting these pictures out into the world - i've edited a few more too!
So, the first show of the year was at the Kulturkirche in Cologne. I've been wanting to shoot this venue for a while, and Von Brücken coming to town was the perfect opportunity! So, enjoy, leave a comment, and come back soon for more! I promise i'll post again next week!
TemperTrap - those fuckers done that deliberately!
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This week saw me head back to Cologne to shoot The Human League in concert! I was totally ill, and only managed to hang around until the first three songs were done and i was out of the pit! Shame, as the start of the show was really cool!
Here's some pics folks! Until next time!
Sunday last week saw the visit of Kula Shaker to Cologne. These guys had their big break in the mid-90's with the album 'K', which they're now touring with to celebrate the 20th anniversary since the albums release.
Live on stage, the band sound just as good now as they did 20 years ago!
A couple of date in Japan follow, with a full UK tour planned for the new-year.
Anyway, check out the photos! Enjoy! Cheers!
Hi everyone!
Well, there's dark gigs, and you know, theres DARK gigs. Gigs where not only are you risking life and limb walking through the photo pit, but also not getting much in the way of fruits for your perilous labour.
Well, last weekend Warpaint gig in Cologne was one such event!
Toil and trouble (as it was the night before hallowe'en) led to not too much in the way of keepers! Sometime's i really wonder if bands are interested in their marketing at all? I mean presumably they do want people to see what they get up to on stage? I'm sometimes not sure if they do. Although, in all fairness - there aren't that many live images of Warpaint around, so maybe thats the reason why. I may not have the most light-sensitive camera (there's much better available), but for future reference, should i shoot this band again, i'll need to hire some night-vision-aparatus!!
Anyway - moan over - here's some pics!
Cheers!
Hi!
I'm gradually catching up!!
The full set of images from the White Lies show i shot a couple of weeks back are now live on Flickr for you to enjoy in full-res!
Head here - https://flic.kr/s/aHskLjSeo7
Cheers!
Hey,
So, I'm finally getting round to uploading some of my recent shoots on to flickr! Here's the first, the Kaiser Chiefs, shot in Cologne on 27th October.
Here's the full hi-res album -
https://flic.kr/s/aHskLiyxnA
Cheers!
Friday night last week saw me visiting the Capitol Theatre in Düsseldorf. I was invited by PopNRW to shoot their special evening of music from bands supported by the PopNRW funding committee.
Acts included Goldroger, The Day, Blackberries, GiantRooks and Moglebaum.
Enjoy the pictures, and feel free to leave a comment!
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