June 14, 2009 – Touring in support of her sophomore solo album, Acid Tongue, Jenny Lewis played a soulful show to an enraptured audience at the Pageant.
Photographer’s Notes:
I’d photographed Rilo Kiley a few years ago, so I was eager to see Jenny Lewis rock the stage in her solo effort this time around.
This was a pretty straight-forward show, with fairly steady lighting. While Jenny Lewis and band received more marginal front-lighting, there was an abundant amount of white backlighting, which created some nice accents.
I used the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 and Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 for this concert. Overall, I favored the telephoto for the most part; the 70-200mm was perfect for isolating shots of Lewis.
This gig was first three from a narrow photo pit at the front of the stage.
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Nice shots, Todd. The white lighting really gave you some great skintones. Were you pushing the ISO pretty hard to keep your shutter speeds up?
Hey Jason, thanks for the comment.
I tweaked the WB on a few shots, but most are as-shot. I was shooting between ISO 2500 and 3200 for this concert — so, not so bad in the grand scheme of things. The shutter speeds I was using weren’t blisteringly high, but perfectly suitable for this sort of show.
I really like way you used the monitors as a framing device in the last shot. Monitors are usually such a pain, unless a guitarist puts his or her foot up on it to jam, but you really made them work in that shot.
Hey Rich,
Thanks for the feedback. The monitors were set up in such a symmetrical fashion, I knew I had to take at least a snap of the setup framing Jenny and accented by the lights.
I agree, most of the time monitors are more of a nuisance or an obstacle, but sometimes they can work well for compositions and pushing different angles.
Is this at is 3200? Remarkable!
as said earlier great framing on the last shown picture! great set.
Hey Kristian,
Yes, I started out around ISO 2500 and later moved up to ISO 3200 for some of the lighting treatments. Some of these are also pushed in post, so there’s even more noise than there would be natively at ISO 3200. Thanks for the feedback.
5th shot from the bottom and last shot … b r u t a l. That’s all I can say!
Cheers,
Daniel
Hey Daniel,
Thanks for the picks. Seems people like that image with the monitors.
Hey Todd,
Yeah, that last shot with the PAs is very good. And the lights above her also helped to give a different feeling to the shot … I’m not surprised it’s making success ;)
Cheers,
Daniel
Todd,
Nice shots as usual. Jenny went straightforward casual this time around, huh; no hot pants or gyrating choreography on “Fernando” like when she was with the Watson Twins?
No, nothing crazy this time. The band had just played Bonnaroo the day before this show, but I think she’s been keeping it pretty low key on this tour.
WOW, its so amazing todd.
great pict with a great light too, what camera you used??
please check my DA ya! (if you get another time, hehe)
GREAT WORK!