Sonic Syndicate & Deathstars @ Atak

[Nouks]

And another thread of mine...

As I already told in my Help-thread in the PA Talk-section, this was a pretty funny gig to me. While I did a lot of experimental stuff last months, I didn't do much special during the gig to take "other" photos than I usually would. But the funny thing is, this selection might be a combination of both the kind of photos I'd usually pick and some work I'd usually delete immediately after downloading them to my computer.

Don't know where my selection will go at this point, so maybe at the end of this post some explanation.

More photos can be found here (http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst).
Most of the photos have been shot on ISO3200, I used both my 1D2 and 20D.


1.
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0081.jpg

2.
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0172.jpg

3.
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0175.jpg

More Sonic Syndicate:
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0031.jpg
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0095.jpg

4. Deathstars
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0224.jpg

5. Deathstars
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0249.jpg

6. Deathstars
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0250.jpg

7. Deathstars
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0304.jpg

8. Deathstars
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0423.jpg

More Deathstars:
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0264.jpg
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0265.jpg
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0389.jpg
http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/bin/images/large/AT_20090306_Deathst_0321.jpg

Okay... I decided to post a little more than just 8 because I feel like I want to share this 14, so 8 visible and 6 clickable...

@ Kalle: this one (http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/AT_20090306_Deathst_0253_large.html) and 2 photos further in the gallery are the accidental unsharp foreground photos I told about in the Help-thread. They didn't make it to the 14 above, I might want to get used to it first...

[Coppatop85]

6 and 7 are amazing! Did you add a tint or color tone to these, or was the lighting just very colorful? Lots of green and magenta.

[Nouks]

Thanks!

There has been used a lot of different colors that evening. Didn't really do major color adjustments except for some white balancing in some shots.

[René Damkot]

Still a lovely set :)

[DwightMcCann]

Quite a range of style! I don't think you need to explain yourself as you've been here quite a while and we all know you're a young girl with sometimes red hair, Rene's buddy from time to time, and an artsy shooter! :-) If we ever make it over to the Netherlands we'll make sure to see you.

[kmb]

I like #7.

This one (http://www.nouks.nl/20090306_Deathst/content/AT_20090306_Deathst_0025_large.html) has a lot of potential, but now the guy on the background seems more of an accident than an intentional compositional element.

I'm puzzled by #4.

Otherwise it seems like a solid set... sigh, I wish I was better at commenting on other people's photographs.

Edit: do they make you leave the front (press pit) after a while or do you choose to go to the back and use tele? It seems to me it's rather hard to make art, so to speak, with the tele as it puts you into a position where you (the viewer) are not a part of the action, and also it makes the deal a whole lot more documentary style, beacause the range of angles, variety regarding focal lengths and so on is vaslty restricted. Nothing wrong with documentary style, though, but I personally am more interested in, um, artsy stuff.

[narlus]

i like 5 and 7 quite a bit...4 doesn't work for me.

[Nouks]

Thanks for the comments.

Dwight, did you read my thread in the PA Talk section? Maybe that explains why I'd like to explain myself in this case. I personally felt this set needed a little more explanation than the photos I usually come home with. Besides that, that "artsy shooter" thing might just be your point of view. Note the funny difference between your comment and that of Kalle, and note the difference between the Rockarty thread (why should I be an artsy shooter when shooting a festival called Rockarty?), and again: maybe my PA Talk thread explains a lot here.

Kalle, I hate the guy in the back aswell. Had my doubts about selecting it in the first place, but well, as you see I did. It's not really an accident (it was nearly impossible to not include half people with musicians standing next to each other with like *no* space in between them, all on the frontside of the stage) but he definitely shouldn't have been there OR should have added something to the photo.

There was a 3 song rule at all 3 bands performing that night, and besides that the front of the stage was absolutely impossible to get to. Something with 14 to 17 year old girls on their first gig experience in front of their heroes, not planning to move for even an inch to let someone else enjoy the show and the view aswell... I'm too short to have no half heads in front of faces of the musicians, so I started at the front but since that was too frustrating I went off to the balcony during the second song.

Oh, and I did shoot the whole concert, because I wasn't *officially* old about the 3 song rule, but I didn't want to stay in the front in the first place because I had heard about it *unofficially* from the photographer that was shooting for Atak that night, and I wanted to make my point clear to the staff that something like that has to be communicated. In this gig the Atak photographer was the most unexperienced photographer present, and all press photographers with their pro bodies and 70-200's did shoot the whole concert. Bit unfair and I think I made myself clear now.