Anyhow, moving right along. Last week my pic was nature-related so I decided to change it up this week. Show something a bit different. I enjoy going to metal shows a lot and have been taking concert pics for some time now. This is one of the concert pics that I've taken that really helped me learn more about how to get a good shot, learn about timing, etc.
Pretty brutal, hey? This is the lead guitarist, John, for the band Conducting From The Grave. A decent local band who I had the pleasure of meeting after the show. They played May 31st at the Mod Club and were opening for Annotations of an Autopsy and Dying Fetus. That night was an awesome one. I'm a major fan of AOAA and had made sure to get to the venue hours early so that I had at least a slight chance of meeting them. Instead, I hung out with some of the members from Conducting. They proved to be very relaxed, easy going guys. One of them was even strumming a guitar on the streets and people kept throwing change in his guitar case!
However, I did get to meet the guys of AOAA later on before the show and I snapped many shots of Conducting, AOAA, and Dying Fetus that night. This picture is my favourite out of all them. It's the most clear, the lighting is perfect, and John was a great sport in making eye contact. Back then, the camera I had wasn't the best. The quality was shit, it took ten years for it to take the picture and another ten to process the shot. So you can understand my pleasure at the time of getting this snap :P
After the show, I got to meet all the members of each band (there were 5). Every single person who had been on the stage at one point and time got to sign my torso. At the time, I was in a sort of competition with an old ex of mine and this was my way of getting ahead. I do have a picture of my signed torso but I'm not putting that up here (at least, not right now). It was a good night and I'm very proud of this picture. John himself saw it later on when it was posted on Facebook and he seemed to really like it as well. This is what helps keep me trying my best in concert photography. In this branch of photog, I still have a looooong way to go in learning some new and better techniques but easy does it. There are still many concerts for me to go to.
Just a last note: Blogspot is being a dbag and not letting me embed images like last week, so I'm just uploading picture from my laptop. If you want another gander at my photography account on dA, just Click Me!
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