Pop Punkers The Academy Is… put on a lively performance, that, despite bizarrely bad lighting for photography, was a blast to photograph and which served as a great warm up for Blink-182‘s reunion tour.
Photographer’s Notes:
The lighting for this show was a very strange mix of cyan backlighting, orange frontlighting, and mild daylight creeping in from under the shed at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. Despite this ghoulish lighting, The Academy Is… brought a really energetic set to the stage.
As ever, frontman William Beckett was the focal point of the performance, with tons of charisma and rockstar moves that belied the band’s opening-slot status on this tour. Personally, I’m still waiting for the band’s lighting to catch up with their live show.
I shot this show primarily with the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8, though the Nikon 70-200mm came out to pick up some tighter shots of William shot from down-stage as well.
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Great pictures, you are incredibly talented, but what about Mike Carden?!
I have a shot of Mike that I didn’t post here – let me see if I can do that for you, just give me a few days, I’m traveling over the next week. Thanks for the comment.
These pics are pretty amazing! I wish mine would come out half as good in that concert lighting.
Hi Catlin, thanks for the kind words.
TAI is one of my favorite bands to shoot. They always are doing something “photo-worthy”. These pictures are amazing.
Thanks, Abby. TAI are definitely fun to photograph – William is full of great expressions.
@oursongtitles 4th pic down OMG http://bit.ly/GEmcd
Oh, you’re really talented. I loved every single picture of this set. I wonder if you edit ‘em… Because i’ve seen photographers that doesn’t like to edit their pictures. Even one has told me that a good photographer doesn’t need to edit her/his pictures to make ‘em look good.
I don’t know what’s wrong with using photoshop :(
Hi Elvia,
Thanks for the kind words. For this set of images, I didn’t do much in the way of editing. Honestly, I don’t have the time to do much Photoshop work on these images! I tweak exposure and white balance in Nikon Capture NX (for converting the RAW files). In Photoshop, it’s mostly just an action I use for resizing and sharpening for web output. Thanks again for the comment.
Great pictures, you sure are talented ;)