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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: afx on January 27, 2016, 21:47:16

Title: The Drumstick
Post by: afx on January 27, 2016, 21:47:16
Last Friday I was shooting the CD release party of Street Level by Nick Woodland (http://www.nick-woodland.de/).

It was not the first time I shot a concert of his band. But this was the most crowded ever.
Sold out. No place to move. So I only took a few images. But one of them stood out:

(http://images.afximages.com/photos/i-sBfFmZ8/0/L/i-sBfFmZ8-L.jpg) (http://images.afximages.com/photos/i-sBfFmZ8/0/O/i-sBfFmZ8-O.jpg)

Sometimes luck shines ;-)

The whole set can be found here (http://images.afximages.com/Concerts/Nick-Woodland-Ampere-January/n-d2qcf4).

cheers
afx
Title: Re: The Drumstick
Post by: ColinM on January 27, 2016, 23:26:26
....and did he catch it?
Title: Re: The Drumstick
Post by: Tristin on January 28, 2016, 01:53:12
Nice capture!  Definitely some lucky timing, but the composition and exposure are top notch.

Though I am annoyed by flashy drummers, they certainly have better things to practice.  That's just the band leader in me.   :-X

Title: Re: The Drumstick
Post by: afx on January 28, 2016, 07:48:33
....and did he catch it?
Yes he did.. ;-)

Nice capture!  Definitely some lucky timing, but the composition and exposure are top notch
Thanks!

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Though I am annoyed by flashy drummers, they certainly have better things to practice.  That's just the band leader in me.   :-X
LOL.. Usually drummers are so hidden and badly lit that I rarely get a god shot of them...
And with Nick's voice and typical stage appearance, even a flashy drummer can't outdo him.

One of the best parts of this concerts was the drummer starting a solo which was then then over by the base player and ended in them going back and forth...

This guy also plays in another band (http://images.afximages.com/Concerts/Organ-Explosion-Kulturstadl/i-RNW8bLL) where he really took center stage:

(http://images.afximages.com/Concerts/Organ-Explosion-Kulturstadl/i-RNW8bLL/0/L/AFX-20150807-0202-wm-L.jpg) (http://images.afximages.com/Concerts/Organ-Explosion-Kulturstadl/i-RNW8bLL/0/O/AFX-20150807-0202-wm-O.jpg)

Shot last August.
He is really very good, and a relieve after having heard too many bands where the drummer beats everything to death instead of providing a strong foundation.

cheers
afx
Title: Re: The Drumstick
Post by: Anirban Halder on February 01, 2016, 16:00:43
Very nice shots; I like the whole series. It's always fun to see low shutter speed concert shots.
Title: Re: The Drumstick
Post by: Tristin on February 01, 2016, 17:52:57
Speaking of shutter speeds, what do you stick to for live music afx?  I find 1/125 to be perfect.  Fast enough to freeze faces while allowing some motion blur on quick moving limbs.