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Hail of Bullets – Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Daniel — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:11:43 +0000

It was late and after being awake till 6 am the last night, Hail of bullets were supposed to be just a short stop before getting back to the tent, but after listening to them for a while, we decided to stay, because they were so much fun. The Band was really active today and all over the stage… no idea why, but I’ll never complain about an energetic show.

Shooting Notes
Another show in that awefull tent again. Not that I didn’t enough the Bands playing there, but the light was aweful the entire time. I was shotting Hail of Bullets at ISO 1600 with an aperture of f2.8 and a shuttter speed of 1/125. For the most part I used a flash to freeze the silhouetted guys do to the missing frontlight, turning the flash of just from time to time, when they stepped in the middle of the stage and there was more light on them. I was shooting this set exclusively with the 24-70 because the guys moved so much and didn’t stand still for a moment, also I wouldn’t have been able to get a sharp image with the 70-200 do to motion blur.

Hail of Bullets - Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Hail of Bullets – Death Feast Open Air 2010

Daniel — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:36:30 +0000

Last year Asphyx played the Death Feast Open Air, this year it was Hail of Bullets turn. Nearly as enthusiastic and energetic as Asphyx, the Band hit the stage and graped the attention of the audience within minutes. Even though the Band only released one Album and an EP so far, they knew how to deliever and with a crushing sound they made their 55 Minutes of playtime quite enjoyable.

Shooting Notes
Shooting Hail of Bullets 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 1/125 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.

If you want to see more of Hail of Bullets, check out my Pictures of them at Rock Hard Festival 2009

Hail of Bullets - Death Feast Open Air 2010

Grand Magus, Audrey Horne, Hail of Bullets, Dragonforce – Rock Hard Festival 2009

Daniel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:20:47 +0000

First band of the day was Grand Magus for me. Another highlight I was looking for on this festival, but I got disappointed again. The sound was absolutly aweful and the only thing I was able to make out was the bassguitar, while all the other instruments were not loud enought to compete.

Audrey Horne from Norway rocked the house afterwards and claimed a lot of ground that Grand Magus had lost. Especially singer Toschie and the stand-in Bassplayer were all over the stage.

Hail of Bullets were up next and the made no prisons. With a mighty songs and an extrem sound they were the direct opposite to Audrey Horne.

Now the fun started. The last time I say Dragonforce live was a couple of years ago, while they just started getting famous. A lot has happend since then and the number of plattforms and trampolins multiplied during that time. All of the guys were all over the stage and it was just so much fun shooting them, even though you had to be quite fast no to miss them running from one side to the other.

Shooting Notes
The second day wasn’t much different then the first. Sill normal light during the day, without much trouble and in the evening even worth moody light then the evening before shooting Opeth… during the morning the 11-16 was used a lot to capture the fast moving Hails of Bullet and Dragonforce and get some extrem perspectivs.

Grand Magus

Audrey Horne

Hail of Bullets

Dragonforce