Parachute06 Music Festival - LARGE POST

[FlyingPete]

Well it was that time of year again, for the sixth year in a row I covered the Parachute Music Festival.

My main assignment was to get up close and personal with my shots, other guys were working wide the shots etc.

Here is a sample of my favorites!

http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/Delirous01.jpg
Martin from Delirious
EF70-200 f/2.8L 70mm 1/500 f/3.2 ISO1600 AP

http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/Delirous02.jpg
Another Martin shot
EF70-200 f/2.8L 165mm 1/250 f/3.2 ISO1600 AP

http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/Guitar01.jpg
Band here unknown, I still need to match my schedule with the shot time
EF70-200 f/2.8L 105mm 1/80 f/2.8 ISO1600 AP

http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/Jump01.jpg
Again unknown
EF70-200 f/2.8L 70mm 1/800 f/2.8 ISO400 AP

http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/Late80sMerc01.jpg
Late Eighties Mercedes, great show, my two year old couldn't stop dancing!
EF70-200 f/2.8L 70mm 1/320 f/2.8 ISO1600 AP

http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/Parachute01.jpg
Libby from the Parachute Band, I really like this shot, but not sure why?
EF70-200 f/2.8L 70mm 1/250 f/9 ISO200 P

http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/Sunset01.jpg
Actually not a band but an MC, nice sunset though
EF70-200 f/2.8L 70mm 1/1600 f/2.8 ISO1600 AP

http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/TheValley01.jpg
The Valley, they sounded sort of like Ramstein to me
EF70-200 f/2.8L 200mm 1/1000 f/2.8 ISO400 AP

[tim]

Pete, some of the slashes in your URL are around the wrong way, they work in IE (beacuse it assumes web developers are stupid) but not firefox. Not the fastest of servers either. Nice pics tho, when you eventually see 'em :)

[forsaken]

was wondering why I couldn't see any pictures.

Nice photos

[MattL]

Great shots Pete.

Tim stop bagging my webserver. Its not *that* slow :P

[LuisE]

I like them a lot, what kind of lens did you use?

[Steve Parr]

I'm diggin' #4 and #7. Would've liked to have seen some of the crowd in #7, but I don't know how that would've impacted your ability to capture the sky as well as you did...

Steve

[Exit]

Great shots Pete.

Tim stop bagging my webserver. Its not *that* slow :P

It's pretty slow :)

I like the shots!

[FlyingPete]

Fixed the links!

As for the web server speed, it is almost 1MB of images there, so that is everal minutes on dialup, and a bout 30 seconds on a typical kiwi boradband connection, so that is nothing to to with the fine server they are hosted on :D BTW thanks again to Matt for the web space!

[FlyingPete]

I like them a lot, what kind of lens did you use?

Most of the shots were with my EF70-200 f/2.8, great lens for the job. In fact most of the guys shooting either used some species of 70-200 f/2.8 or a 10/12-20/22ish lens, nothing much in the middle apart from the odd 50 prime.

I include the shot details in the above shortly...

[Wazza]

Some great pics there Pete, you should be proud.. Hope there's no sunburn from the HOT temperatures we all had this weekend.

Matt also has my warrenwilliams.co.nz site hosted, but I still mostly use wazz*****scity.com for the moment.

[FlyingPete]

Some great pics there Pete, you should be proud.. Hope there's no sunburn from the HOT temperatures we all had this weekend.


It got very hot! Over 40degC! Humidity was nuts too. No sunburn this year though.

It was so hot people started doing crazy stuff, like this guy and his three brothers ;) :
http://www.flyingpete.nzpages.net/Parachute06/JumpingMan01.jpg

[KaplanMultimedia]

Wonderful images. Thanks for sharing them along with the EXIF info. :D

[DwightMcCann]

Well, I have as fast connections as there are (except for the NSA) here at the University and I think the server is a bit slow regardless of what the AustralioKiwi speeds are.;) But I, too, like the pictures although I can't say that the lighting is very good ... was this a big event? Outdoors? I tend to use my 300mm f/2.8L (and with 1.4TC part of the time) for these kinds of images.

[FlyingPete]

Well, I have as fast connections as there are (except for the NSA) here at the University and I think the server is a bit slow regardless of what the AustralioKiwi speeds are.;) But I, too, like the pictures although I can't say that the lighting is very good ... was this a big event? Outdoors? I tend to use my 300mm f/2.8L (and with 1.4TC part of the time) for these kinds of images.

No web speeds down here compare with what you guys in North America can get :( Heck your connection is probably quicker than the combined bandwidth out of this country!

Lighting was a real mix up, some stages were outdoor, some indoors, some day some night. The indoor stages were really hard to shoot as the lighting was almost too low to handhold at ISO1600, as for the outdoor stage, the lighting was pretty good there most of the time, although heavily coloured.

Images 1 & 2 are outdoors after dark, images 3 & 5 are indoors, the rest are outdoors during the day or twilight.

[dgcorner]

Pete, fantastic images and thanks for the exif too -- I can use these as reference if and when I am shooting in a particular situation...

I have to move up to "broadband" one of these days... No matter how good Matt's webserver is, my connections just spoil things every now and then.

Cheers!

[MattL]

Pete, looking at these images again, I think they are simply amazing.

You've managed to get sharp, colourful, and exciting images in a very tough shooting situation.

Im not sure who you were shooting for, but Im sure that your editor / whoever would have been impressed.

[scotttnz]

Great shots Pete. I like the one of Libby too.

Did you find that the new lens made a big difference over what you were using last year?

And the big question......are you going to do it again next year?

[FlyingPete]

Thanks for the feedback guys!

Great shots Pete. I like the one of Libby too.

Did you find that the new lens made a big difference over what you were using last year?

And the big question......are you going to do it again next year?

The 70-200L was the next best thing since changing over to digital, I don't care what people say about it being the photographer not the equipement that makes great images, the 70-200 was a huge improvement over the 75-300IS in all regards :D

As for the question of a 7th Parachute, maybe, as I have got at least three images being published in the next two weeks :)

[superdiver]

I love the sunset one and that last one with the guy in different stages of the jump...One day I need to learn how to do that...

[codex0]

Beautiful shots - particularly the outdoor ones. Looks like it was quite the festival :D.

I think I'd like to see #1 cropped a bit closer, and perhaps #6 and #8 a bit from the top.

[SQUAREROOT]

Thanks for posting the exif. Great work!!!

Cheers!
Square

[Titus213]

Excellent shots!