Firewind – Summer Breeze Open Air 2009

Daniel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:42:33 +0000

Firewind are always a blast to watch. Their intense show and great songs are so much fun. Unfortunatly not so many people on the Festival seemed to know that or it was simple to late during the night, but the tentstage was pretty much empty in comparison to all the people that had been in here on the first evening. Nonetheless the Band really rocked and played an intense set.

Shooting Notes
I don’t know why, but as soon as I stepped out of the photopit after the first three songs were over, the stage lite up in intense colours. Great, that’s the way I like it. While I had the chance to shoot the light was really simple and consisted of mostly a pink wash. The ISO was up at 800, the aperture locked at 2.8 and the shutter speed varied between 1/100 and 1/250. I was using flash to get some light in the faces of the artists, because there wasn’t much front light.

Firewind - Summer Breeze Open Air 2009

Tracedawn, Firewind, Bullet, D-A-D – Rock Hard Festival 2009

Daniel — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:58:43 +0000

The third and last day of the festivals started with the finnish band Tracedawn. I’m a big fan of their debut album and so I really enjoyed seeing them. I was a bit disappointed that it took forever to get on the festivalground so that I just had one Song shooting them.

Next up were Firewind. They really made quite a show and the guys were all over the stage. Gus G. and Bob K. seemed to really enjoy their performance adn were pulling faces the whole time.

Bullet are always a complete blast to watch and shoot. I had the privilege to see them on tour with Hammerfall and so I was really looking forward to shooting them. Those guys are pure Rock’n'Roll.

During the whole morning the D-A-D crew was setting up for the show. There was a big setup build and the band brought flamethrower, etc. This was acctually the first time on the whole festival that a band went through that and brought their own stuff. The following show justified the entire hassle and made this one of the best shows of the whole weekend.

Shooting Notes

The only thing you had to watch out for this morning were the flamethrowers D-A-D brought. There was quite a bit of brightness and fast movement introduced to the scene when those things went of. So I set up my camera to fast shooting and blasted away as the flames startet to grow behind the musicians to capture the right moment.

Tracedawn

Firewind

Bullet

D-A-D

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Firewind – Summer Breeze Open Air 2009

Tracedawn, Firewind, Bullet, D-A-D – Rock Hard Festival 2009