Photos: Trampled Under Foot @ The Pageant

Trampled Under Foot opening for Big Head Todd & The Monsters at The Pageant in St. Louis on February 4, 2012. (Todd Owyoung)

Opening for Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Trampled Underfoot probably had some of the most gorgeous lighting I’ve ever seen for an opening band. While the effects weren’t super bright, and thus required primes for a good portion of the shooting, the production for this trio proved that even dim lighting, given the proper exposure, can look fantastic.

Trampled Under Foot opening for Big Head Todd & The Monsters at The Pageant in St. Louis on February 4, 2012. (Todd Owyoung)

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This gig with Trampled Under Foot was lit from the front exclusively with an LED rig that had some dedicated white bulbs, mixed with orange output. While LED lights often get a bad reputation among music photographers, these lights looked fantastic, thanks to the dedicated white bulbs. Often, LED rigs will have an RGB array that are mixed to create white-ish light, which looks alright to the audience but often photographs poorly. Not the case for this gig.

Mix in a little backlighting and a lot of haze, this show was gorgeous – albiet dim enough that it necessitated shooting with primes.

Sometimes low quantity of light can still mean good quality, so I was thankful for the Nikon D3, D700 and my f/1.4 primes to open up the relative darkness for this show.

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About the author: Todd Owyoung is an internationally published music photographer specializing in concert photography and band portraits. He also grills a mean steak.

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This entry was posted on Friday, February 17th, 2012 at 12:00 am and is filed under Letters, Music Photography and tagged with big head todd, pageant, trampled under foot. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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Ian Soliva says:

February 17, 2012 at 4:00 am

sick set as usual Todd! what was the maximum ISO you used for this?

Todd says:

February 17, 2012 at 5:18 pm

Hey Ian,

Thanks very much. I think I was shooting at around ISO 3200 as the maximum sensitivity, but as low as 1600 as well.

- damian godley says:
  
  February 19, 2012 at 11:47 am
  
  Nice shots Todd,
  if i shoot at anything like iso 3200 would be very grainy,normally i shoot at iso 1600.50mm f1:8 & 70-200mm f2:8.
  
  But using a nikon d100 so dont go over iso 1600 too grainy :-(
  
  think i need to upgrade my camera

@MRGABE says:

February 19, 2012 at 1:02 pm

Hey Todd, I have 2 questions.

I shoot at a few pretty much pitch-black dive bars, and I wanted to know if you would advise against shooting at 3200 ISO on a D7000 (I normally shoot at 1600) or how far you’d push the ISO to.

2nd question: I use Lightroom and I absolutely love the program. The only problem that I have with it is that when I bring in RAW images from my D7000, they come in underexposed, totally different from how they look on the LCD of my camera. Have you experienced this, and if so, what have you done to correct it? Sometimes I shoot RAW+JPEG and the JPEG matches the LCD, while the RAW is terribly underexposed, and when I adjust the exposure, the noise goes thru the roof.

Thanks in advance!

- Gabe

Robert says:

February 20, 2012 at 1:18 pm

great shoots, I got a shoot coming up next week over in belleville where I will be dealing with some lousy lighting but hey its those locals that truly help build experience. if you can shoot in those conditions you can shoot just about anywhere.