Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Lucky

Well, different venue for a change...

Thought it might be nice to shoot a 'bigger name', so went to BRMC in Lucky, Rijssen.

Venue has a capacity of about 1200 AFAIK. Only 450 tickets were sold.
I guess 1200 would include the balcony, since otherwise there's no way that would have fitted in...

Anyway. Support act was "The Horse Company".
I was allowed to shoot the entire show of the support, and BRMC had a 3 song - absolutely no flash allowed rule.

I used the support act to get a feeling for the venue and lighting.
I needn't have bothered about getting a feeling for the lighting, since BRMC used Atomics almost exclusively for song 2 and 3. Combine that with lots of smoke, and not too much room to move around in (no photo pit), and you're in for a challenge...

It also was quite frustrating to see that after the fifth song, the rest of the lighting was used quite competently, and there were quite a few (not credential-led) photographers merrily snapping away, sometimes using AF assist lights and flash... Ah well.

So, enough rambling, here are some images:

#1: The Horse Company:

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

HTTP response: 404 | MIME changed to 'text/html' | Byte size: ZERO

Looks like a real difficult lighting to shoot. I know how it is, as most of mine are very similar, and the issue with number 7 I feel your pain. I have done that a number of time making my way around. I think I have been very fortunate and not been exposed to any 3 song ruels in my local clubs. Good captures none the less Rene, number 7 grows on you after a bit.

yeah, it looks very similar to the (non-existant) lighting i had to deal w/ , at least front-wise. i would bump up the contrast a bit on a few of them.

did you like their music? i think they've got 6-8 killer songs.

All things considered they are very good ... I'm sure they screwed with the lighting and smoke 'cause they knew you were coming to shoot. I am curious about #6 ... that red doesn't look like your usual red gel type red ... did you manipulate it? In either case, good job.

Thanks!

On the music: yeah, I liked it. Already knew it. Have a tape of it from a few years back (hey, I still play tapes! )
But I was kinda annoyed on the build up of the lightshow, so I left early.
Not that I mind a build up, but I do mind bad lighting, and songs 3-4 were badly lit IMO.

Oh, and Narlus: I did manage so squeeze in a redo of your BRMC image.

On the red in #5 : That's one of the Atomics (strobe), with a red gel you see there. I caught two flashes (probabely) in the 1/5s exposure time.
Red in #6 is gelled stage lighting.

Both #5 and 6 were set at a low WB (about 2000K and 2500K respectively), and vibrance and saturation were turned down (about -20/-20 and -20/-10 respectively). On #5 exposure was pulled down as well. Still blown, but who cares?

you're just as good with the mouse as you are with the camera. nice work of tough conditions.

René Damkot wrote in post #4375237
It also was quite frustrating to see that after the fifth song, the rest of the lighting was used quite competently, and there were quite a few (not credential-led) photographers merrily snapping away, sometimes using AF assist lights and flash... Ah well.

I think 'Photographers' might have been too big a word: Gallery

René Damkot wrote in post #4413113
I think 'Photographers' might have been too big a word: Gallery

Yes, well, but ya' gotta' remember that the lights were bad and there was a lot of smoke!

i realy liked 6 and 7.