Photos: T-Pain, F.A.M.E. Tour 2011

T-Painperforming on the FAME Tour 2011 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 24, 2011. (Todd Owyoung)

I'd caught T-Pain performing in support of Lil Wayne back in 2009 on the I Am Music Tour, but just a little distance kept us apart with photographers corralled back at the soundboard for that tour.

Thankfully on Chris Brown's F.A.M.E. Tour, I got a chance to get up close and personal with Mr. Autotune himself.

T-Painperforming on the FAME Tour 2011 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 24, 2011. (Todd Owyoung)

T-Painperforming on the FAME Tour 2011 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 24, 2011. (Todd Owyoung)

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T-Painperforming on the FAME Tour 2011 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 24, 2011. (Todd Owyoung)

T-Painperforming on the FAME Tour 2011 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 24, 2011. (Todd Owyoung)

T-Painperforming on the FAME Tour 2011 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 24, 2011. (Todd Owyoung)

T-Painperforming on the FAME Tour 2011 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 24, 2011. (Todd Owyoung)

Atmosphere at Chris Brown's Fame Tour performance at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis on September 24, 2011 (Todd Owyoung)

T-Painperforming on the FAME Tour 2011 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on September 24, 2011. (Todd Owyoung)

Photographer's Notes:

Cameras Used:

  • Nikon D3
  • Nikon D700

Lenses Used:

T-Pain almost never stops moving on stage. He literally seemed to pace back and forth between the left and right sides of the stage, always in constant motion.

There was a decent amount of light – though some of the other shooters in the pit complained about the treatment, I thought that it was totally workable. The lighting, with lots of haze, was certainly more atmospheric than some of the other acts, but I thought it was a nice change of pace to the spotlight-only, hazeless effects that we often see for hip hop.

I shot this set at ISO 1600 and 1/500 at f/2.8.

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