Being able to shoot Juli this week was something I really wanted to do for a long time now. I’m a huge fan of the Band and so when the opportunity came up I just couldn’t pass it. After being away for 2 years now, the Band played in smaller venues then during the ‚Dieses Leben‘ Tour and so they were in the FZW in Dortmund, which is a really nice and comfortable club. The first Minute into the set it was clear that the Audience would enjoy this evening. The Band played an intense and great show with an awesome sound and a great lightshow.

Shooting Notes
Even though watching the lightshow from a distance was great, shooting in this light was pretty tough. The Band relied on LED lights which were blasting over the stage from the sides with little frontlight which was mostly focused on Singer Eva Briegel. With those LED lights, you had to be really careful with setting your exposure, because every little mistake resulted in blown out highlights and purple fringing that couldn’t really be fixed in post processing. Only good thing about this light was, that it was at least bright enough to shoot with a fast shutterspeed and lower ISO. I was using ISO 800, just bumping it up to 1250 when shooting Guitarplayers Simon Triebel and Jonas Pfetzing at the side of the stage, when they went out of the direct beam of the LEDs, and a shutter speed of 1/250 and up. The Aperture was set between f2.8 and f4 changing it during the set, trying to get the intense light under control.

Tags: 24.11.2010, Concert, Dortmund, FZW, Juli, Live

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