Necrophagist – Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Daniel — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:05:34 +0000

This wasn’t a good evening for Necrophagist. The Band was doing good, but the sound was just miserable. The highly technical Death Metal Necrophagist is playing needs a really clear and defined sound, but nothing of that was given. It was muddy and the guitars were separately mixed to the left and right of the stage, which made it even harder to hear them. Even though the Band tried their best to put on a good performance, they couldn’t make up for the bad sound.

Shooting Notes
The light wasn’t so good either when Necrophagist were on stage. I was shooting at ISO 1000 at f2.8 with a 1/125 of a second, using flash to counter the bands movement. I was using the EF 27-70 for most of the show just getting the EF 70-200 out for a few close-ups.

Necrophagist - Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Necrophagist (Stefan Fimmers) - Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Necrophagist - Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Necrophagist (Muhammed Suiçmez) - Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Necrophagist - Summer Breeze 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

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Necrophagist – Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Necrophagist – Death Feast Open Air 2010