Rock the city 2007
August 12th, 2007
Some pictures taken from a series produced for the festival rock the city organized by the ASBL Music Productive Park of Woluwe in Brussels include Allan Muller, Confuse the Cat, Mineral, Sharko, and Mud Flow.
The light was quite beautiful with large variation across groups, for example Sharko had almost no light from the front with large rear lights which made the portraits rather difficult, a concert is of course not made to please to a sensor or film, but the eyes and the visual spectacle was truly worthy of the music.
The corridor was reserved for photographers and allowed a fairly wide circulation without impeding the crowd, about 10 photographers (enthusiasts and press photographers) were present to cover the event with aircraft ranging from the 350D to 1DmarkIII.
Last year, I had used almost exclusively the 80/200 2.8 with mainly photos of portraits tight enough, this year I decided not to go out and work at F1.4 and 50 mm wide angle ( 12/24 F4).
The goal was to work with most lighting conditions for longer represent the event that any attempt to price out only good portraits.
The portrait shots were completed mainly in spot metering on the face with an exposure compensation of +1.0 with openings oscillating between F1.6 and F2, the wide-angle pictures have mostly been carried out at the open F4 maximum in matrix metering with exposure compensation of -1.0 manual measurement is too complex to deal with a constantly changing light.
More information about the photo of the concert are available in the technical part
August 12th, 2007 at 9:35
Ben superb series, the arrival of 12/24 in your range of CO Update a real plus.
Good job
August 12th, 2007 at 10:36
Argh! you've finally made the deal all night!
Owl p'tite series! 'm Going to finish mine, like ...
a +
August 12th, 2007 at 11:12
Still beautiful your pictures, continues to give technical information, this is great for beginners like me. Bravo
August 12th, 2007 at 2:06
fast to treat
I like the one carried out at 12-24 bcp.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:47
Gapsi: Thank you! the 12/24 Verily I was allowed to make the atmosphere more of the concert and least limit myself to only working on the portrait
Tom: Yeah I had a hard time sleeping
Augie: Thanks! I also kept the Exif data in images for the parameters of shooting
Arnaud M: Always fast! The images were released in catch one about 30 minutes (contrast, saturation, white balance)
August 13th, 2007 at 10:59
nice work! and as I often say, I love what BenB, but I could never do the BenB BenB and could never make the jean-luc, the opposite atmosphere .... What can be treated as a topic in many ways ....
August 13th, 2007 at 1:41
These extra pictures! In general the concert pictures often look alike, this is not the case, you are quite able to play with the angles, distances the lights, it's good and you did well to keep your 50 and the wide angle for this series
Quick question, for coulloir reserved for photographers how can they be accessed? I thought it was only intended for professionals with a press card.
August 13th, 2007 at 2:14
jean-luc: Thanks! I tell you tonight is for your proposal
Naime Jonathan: Thank you, space is reserved for people who have accreditation which was my case
August 13th, 2007 at 2:22
Thank you for Benjamin Exif
I just realize that you exported your photos with CS2 but how do you do to keep Exif and especially with the right calibration image (firefox).
When I export a jpeg photo of lightroom, firefox does not read the image as it should, include in the registration profile. Safari is nickel.
Thank you
August 13th, 2007 at 2:30
Augie,
You must save your pictures by SRGB, Safari is the only browser I know has had to manage profiles of images
jim
August 13th, 2007 at 2:36
Thank you, but it means that those who read my photos with Firefox have a less beautiful than those who do it with Safari
August 13th, 2007 at 5:20
Super Ben! j'viens to see on your pictures that Jack (Jacques) of Mineral was my class mate ... lol ... I love his band and I did not know it was him ... shame. I arrived in the middle of tourist sharko, too good to aillor.
photos with 50 kills!
August 14th, 2007 at 24:26
Augie, you just have to convert your photos into SRGB and they will be correctly interpreted by all browsers
Nix, Please if you want to revisit certain passages are a few videos and recordings of the concert on the site of the DH and the photos of the event
http://www.dhnet.be/culture/musique/article/180677/sharko-en-toute-simplicite.html
August 20th, 2007 at 3:56
Excellent! the series is really superb! thank you for coming to capture these moments!
Large angles covering the stage and audience are terrible!
Thank you
JF
August 11th, 2008 at 24:34
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