Concert photography for me is a quite new genre in photography to explore. It was about one year ago when I shot my first concert and I got hooked directly. And since that I have shot several concerts, even for quite big bands like Rise Against, Nightwish and The Sounds. At the moment I’m only waiting for the next interesting gig to come up.
I always listened to music when I was a child. I tried to play the guitar and the piano when I was younger, but I wasn’t that good. At the moment I work a lot with music videos and shooting concerts. So apparently I have a quite big interest in music. Maybe that’s why it’s so fun to shoot concerts; standing in the photo pit, waiting for the band, looking at the crazy audience who is screaming like never before.
The feeling is great when the band gets out on the scene and when you can let the shutter go crazy.
Concert photographers often only get two or three songs to shoot. After that the band wants the audience to get the front row. Even three songs is a really short time to shoot since there is so much to think about. You need to get the focus right and the exposure needs to be right (which can be hard when the lights are flashing all the time and the intensity changes). But in the end you need to get a great moment, which for me is the hardest part. You can get a perfectly sharp frame where the light is also great, but if the vocalist looks weird or the moment isn’t right, you can’t use the shot. A lot has to do with luck when it comes to concert photography. Maybe that’s why it’s also so exciting.
Although shooting the concert is awesome, the best part comes later, when I come home and sit down by my computer and start browsing through the shots. If and when I find the golden shot it’s like winning on lottery.
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