holy ghost tent revival @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. One of the things I’m always trying to capture when I shoot shows is pure, unadulterated joy.
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megafaun @ duke gardens
megafaun @ duke gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Great show last night; looking forward immensely to the new Megafaun album. And the Duke Gardens in June are always a lovely, lovely venue — it even refrained from raining on us.
bowerbirds @ duke gardens
bowerbirds @ duke gardens, originally uploaded by minervacat. Proof that you don’t need an SLR to take solid concert shots, just decent lighting. From the Duke Gardens concert series last summer, taken with my Coolpix L3. Off to Duke Gardens again tonight for a set by Megafaun, free tickets courtesy of Triangle Music; the Gardens…
megafaun @ TRKfest 2009
megafaun @ TRKfest 2009, originally uploaded by minervacat. God love my 50 mm f1.8 lens; it is really, really, really the best thing I’ve bought this year and that includes the new car. This shot was taken well after midnight on an outdoor stage that had about 25% of the lights you’d optimally like to…
embarrassing fruits @ TRKfest 2009
embarrassing fruits @ TRKfest 2009, originally uploaded by minervacat. I’m really not cut out to be a full-time pro concert photographer — for one thing, the festivals would kill me: I’m into indoor bathrooms, sleeping in real beds, and showering regularly, plus by about hour five on day one of Bonnaroo I’d want to murder…
american aquarium @ the pour house
american aquarium @ the pour house, originally uploaded by minervacat. From last December, not the CD release party. One of the best shots I’ve ever snapped with my 70-210mm lens in any concert venue, ever, and especially in the dark, weird Pour House. That lens really only does well outside in sunshine — it’s my…
holy ghost tent revival @ trekky records studio
holy ghost tent revival @ trekky records studio, originally uploaded by minervacat. One of my favorite shots of hands from this year. There were a lot of good things about shooting Holy Ghost in the studio earlier this year, but one of the best ones was that none of them asked me what I was…
the never @ local 506
the never @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. Sometimes I think that I should give more credit to the bands that I shoot over and over again, for being patient with me and always infinitely intriguing photographically. Local bands in the Triangle have given me such great opportunities to hone my shooting through repeated…
the national @ the lincoln
the national @ the lincoln, originally uploaded by minervacat. I couldn’t stand to be on the floor with the pushy, sweaty crowd during most of the National’s set last night, so I shot the first song, determined that I’d gotten a few good shots of Matt Berninger, and retreated back to a safe peaceful spot…
lost in the trees @ open eye cafe
lost in the trees @ open eye cafe, originally uploaded by minervacat. There’s things I struggle with in concert photography that aren’t related to photography specifically, per se, or venue lighting, or any of those things — and sometimes the non-photography-related struggles I have bug me more than the actual photography related ones. Like the…
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