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So, I blagged myself a press pass for the Status Quo gig at Portsmouth guildhall the other day.

Here are a few images from the night. The rest can be seen at www.shotlive.co.uk (The reason the ones here are only Rossi and Parfitt is because that is all the paper was interested in!)

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Great images both here and on your site :thumbs:
I see Mr Rossi is still "flying" :D (last one)
 
very very good! :clap::clap:
 
Impressive
 
I like these, being an old rocker myself i can feel the atmosphere.. very nice images..

BTW, how does one get hold of press passes to take pics at events??
 
Well done:thumbs: They are better than some press shots I've seen:thumbs:
 
Great pics and a great band, long may they rock.
 
What camera/lenses?
 
top notch set of shots. Nice and sharp!
 
Thanks for the nice comments all. I have to say I was quite pleased with them also :)

Fraggle101 - The pass was from my local newspaper, if you have a local paper try contacting them. I did do a lot of local bands first to get a portfolio, so I had something to show people I was trying to contact.

Dakid - I used a Canon 30D body and used two lenses (1) Canon 85m F1.2L and (2) Sigma 28-70 F2.8

Thank you all. :D
 
You must've been pretty close to get those photos then. I take it you didn't have to crop too much? Very impressive photos ... what kind of ISO did you need with those large-aperture lenses? Can't see a huge amount of noise in the pictures.
 
dakid said:
You must've been pretty close to get those photos then. I take it you didn't have to crop too much? Very impressive photos ... what kind of ISO did you need with those large-aperture lenses? Can't see a huge amount of noise in the pictures.
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Hi Dakid,

The settings for the images, in the order they are in my original post are:

1. F2.8, 1/125, ISO100, 85mm - Canon 85mm F1.2L
2. F2.8, 1/125, ISO100, 85mm - Canon 85mm F1.2L
3. F2.8, 1/125, ISO100, 85mm - Canon 85mm F1.2L
4. F2.8, 1/125, ISO100, 42mm - Sigma 28-70mm F2.8
5. F2.8, 1/125, ISO100, 30mm - Sigma 28-70mm F2.8
6. F2.8, 1/125, ISO100, 51mm - Sigma 28-70mm F2.8

No Flash was used.

As a note, using ISO 100 is pretty unheard of in this type of photography, and I wish I had taken my F4.0 17-40mm lens to get some wider group shots, as I could have still used F4.0at ISO 400.

Most places I go to I end up using at least ISO 400/800, but with the 85mm F1.2 and the 30D still produces some really nice images. The great thing about band photography is that a little bit of noise/grain adds to the image, as long as its not blurred.

As for cropping, certainly not on the first 3, as 85mm from a couple of meters is a very full frame, the other shots have a slight crop, just to remove the odd stray mic stand etc.

As for close, yeah, I was leaning on the front of the stage :)

Hope this helps.
Alan.
 
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