Opening for Motörhead, Clutch brought their blues-tinged hard rock down like a sledgehammer on an extremely sold-out crowd. Somewhat surprisingly, Clutch also had the most photogenic lighting of the night with just the right amount of haze and big, bold splashes of backlighting.
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Shooting at ISO 3200 with f/2.8 zooms, it was hard to complain too much with Clutch’s heavy, pummeling rock treatment. While there wasn’t enough light to keep shutter speeds extremely high given the constraints, I found that movement wasn’t really a big issue for this band (which couldn’t be said for openers Valient Thorr, by contrast).
For this set, the Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 was just about perfect, and I shot this set with that midrange almost exclusively. Due to the relatively low height of the stage, the band’s style, and having drummer Jean-Paul Gaster up close, I could have easily shot with just the 24-70mm f/2.8.
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Great shot of the drummer.
By the way – you’ve given two pieces of advice that have really helped so I just wanted to thank you.
1) Kneel in small venues to get that rockstar angle. (I actually took my knee out doing this somehow – ouch! But a great tip nonetheless, these are always my favorite shots when I don’t have a stage)
2) Don’t forget the drummer. At first I thought “yeah yeah” when I read this, but really it reminded me to always do it since day one. Good drummer shots are so rewarding.
By the way, I just shot my first nationally recognizable band – the Plain White T’s. Article will be up tomorrow morning :) It’s the first time I’ve felt really conscious shooting in front of a crowd – I was the only photog by the stage and they’re a quiet band. You could hear every clap of the shutter and the autofocus noise was unbearable – never had that happen before! Now I know how it feels to hate blocking the audience’s view and be a distraction!
And that article I was talking about is up (see link below)