Suffocation – Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Daniel — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:11:40 +0000

Suffocation were the first Band for us to see at the Summer Breeze Open Air 2010 and started the whole experience weekend. Except for slight variations in the length of their playtime and the short interruptions in which Frank Mullen adressed the crowd, the show was pretty much the same as a couple of weeks before at the Death Feast Open Air. Well, that doesn’t mean that it was bad… just that we got to enjoy it twice.

Shooting Notes
This being the first gig to shoot on the Festival I had to get back into shooting mode and needed a couple of minutes to ajust to the conditions in the tent. As pointed out before it was dark in there. On the first eve I was still shooting at ISO 1000 (not wanting to bump up the ISO higher) at 1/160 and f2.8, using a flash to get some front light going on. The 24-70 and the 70-200 were my weapons of choice here.

Suffocation - Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

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

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Suffocation – Summer Breeze Open Air 2010

Suffocation – Death Feast Open Air 2010