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Cannibal Corpse – Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Daniel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:58:46 +0000

Cannibal Corpse are always playing a crushing set and were one of the old school extreme Bands on the line up. I wasn’t seeing that much off the set, because I needed to get my legs up and a bit to eat.

Shooting Notes
Cannibal Corpse played during a time, which was perfect for shooting. It was dark enough to see enough of the big lightshow on the stage, but also bright enough to get a great exposure on the guys. I was shooting at f2.8 and ISO 400 so that I could get the shutterspeed up to 1/500 of a second to freeze the headbanging action I knew would be going on. Even though it would have been a great show to get the 10-22 out, the guys stayed away from the edge of the stage, so I was using the 24-70 and to 70-200.

Cannibal Corpse - Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Children of Bodom – Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Daniel — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:23:22 +0000

After Children of Bodom weren’t doing a Headliner Tour in Germany for their ‘Blooddrunk’ Album, I was happy to finally see them live again. In fact Children of Bodom were probably one of the Bands I was looking forward to most. As always the Band pretty much rocked the festival ground, even though I have to say, that Alexi missed a lot of notes in his solos.

Shooting Notes
The Light was a bit weird shooting Children of Bodom, because there wasn’t a lot of frontlight, but the backgroundlights were really bright, which resulted in a stunning backgrounds, but dark faces. I was shooting this set with my 24-70 and the 70-200. I wanted to get out the 10-22, but there wasn’t really enough frontlight to deal with the f4.5 aperture of the lens. Also the Bandmembers stayed always a bit back from the edge of the stage. I kept the ISO between 1000-1600 to have enough light to work at f2.8 and a shutter speed of about 1/160.

Children of Bodom - Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Summer Breeze Open Air 2010 – Preview

Daniel — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:32:17 +0000

All Pictures are done and I’ll be posting all the Bands in the next couple of days, so stay tuned. It was a long weekend.

Suffocation

Rage

Unleashed

Equilibrium

Bleeding Red

Barren Earth

Dream Evil

Napalm Death

Ill Nino

Sideblast

Parkway Drive

The 69 Eyes

Dew-Scented

Tracedawn

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

Obituary

Dark Tranquillity

Subway to Sally

Necrophagist

The Devil’s Blood

Ahab

Fiddler’s Green

The Black Dahlia Murder

Ensiferum

We Butter the Bread with Butter

War from a Harlots Mouth

Despised Icon

Cannibal Corpse

Hypocrisy

Gorgoroth

Heaven Shall Burn

Gwar

Hail of Bullets

Frei.Wild

Leaves Eyes

Hacride

Eisbrecher

Maroon

Poisonblack

Solstafir

Sepultura

Children of Bodom

My Dying Bride

The Crown

Suffocation – Death Feast Open Air 2010

Daniel — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:56:58 +0000

Suffocation are not only one of the most influential Grindcore Bands out there and pioniers in this genre of music, but also one of the most fun Bands to see live. Not ony is the whole Band giving their best all the time, taking up the entire stage headbanging and moving around, Singer Frank Mullen is also one of the funniest and craziest fronters around. Next to that the Band really knows how to play and with an incredible great sound, there couldn’t have been a better headliner in the last spot of the Festival.

Shooting Notes
Shooting Suffocation this evening wasn’t much different to all the other Bands playing with no ambient light available any longer. I had to get the flash out of the bag, set my ISO to 800 and opened my aperture wide to f2.8. I just changed the shutter speed from time to time between 1/60 and 1/160 of a second to get more stagelight on the sensor, keeping it always fast enough to freeze the guys on stage and work against motionblur (which wasn’t that easy with the Band moving all the time). With singer Frank Mullen getting always up to the edge of the stage the 10-22 was an ideal choice to get a couple of close up wide angle shots.

Suffocation - Death Feast Open Air 2010

Necrophagist – Death Feast Open Air 2010

Daniel — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:53:00 +0000

Three Years have passed since the last time the german Band Necrophagist played in Germany. The last time I saw the Band play was four years ago and I was desperately waiting to see them again. Necrophagist play intense and extreme Death Metal, which still is dominated by a lot of melodic elements, which make the Band so enjoyable. Do to the fact that all sets of the previous Bands did get cut short the set of Necrophagist was almost up to length, missing only a couple of minutes of playtime. And even that was to much, because the crowd that had gathered on the grounds was enorm. Necrophagist played an awesome set, which was so much fun to watch, even though the sound wasn’t the best and some of the melodielines and the technical parts got lost in the mix. Nonetheless the Band played a great show and I hope to get a chance to see them again soon.

Shooting Notes
The Band stayed away from the edge of the stage and concentred on playing their parts, so there wasn’t that much action going on on stage. Necrophagist Masterminds Muhammed Suiçmez hair got pretty long since the last time I saw the band and so it was kind of hard to get a good picture of him without hair in his face. I was shooting the 24-70 and the 70-200 for most of the gig, because there was no chance to use the 10-22 with the Band hiding behind the wedges and staying away from the edge of the stage. Since there was no more ambient light, I was using flash to get some light into the faces of the Bandmembers at ISO 800, wide open at f2.8 and a shutter speed of 1/80 of a second.

Necrophagist - Death Feast Open Air 2010

Lock Up – Death Feast Open Air 2010

Daniel — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:23:19 +0000

Lock Up is one of those All-Star Projects that was up on stage at the Death Feast delievering an intense mix of Death-/Thrash- and Grindcore. With the Band playing right before Suffocation there were two extremely good and professional Bands up on the last evening and the enormous amount of people in the audience made pretty clear, that both of them were highlighs. Within minutes the first moshpit formed and the amount of stagedivers went exponentially up.

Shooting Notes
Tomas Lindberg and Anton Reisenegger where prime candidates to get the EF 10-22 out and go wide angle again. Both kept at the edge of the stage acting intensively in the direction of the crowd making it so much more fun shooting them. The entire Band was moving quite a lot during the gig and so there was no way around using a higher shutter speed to work against motion blur, having to deal with a darker background and dim stagelights which I had to brighten up in postprocessing. Except of that I was pretty much using the same settings as before: ISO 800, F2.8 (f3.5-4.5 with the Ef 10-22) and of course flash, dialing the power down 1 stop to keep the flash from dominating the picture.

Lock Up - Death Feast Open Air 2010