goulden

October 16, 2005

you're one of the rare concert shooters still using film i see. but no matter if you get shots like this every time. brilliant stuff

October 16, 2005

my 24-70 is out of action so I'm shooting for the next few weeks with

only my 10-22 or 70-200 lenses, so not the most original shot here but

i think it works well

October 15, 2005

not great in my opinion i'm afraid. the background including cameraman is too sharp inn focus which thereby takes attention off the lead singer. his expression isn't great in this shot and you've cropped off his hand and included some of the stage monitor at the bottom. he's so centrally located it doesn't make the eye want to move around the picture. it looks like a very typical shot taken from the front row of a crowd.

October 14, 2005

i also post over at www.grassrootsx.com (go have a look) a music photography forum, and i often see shots that i think are mine at first glance. there are only so many ways to shoot if you're in the same pit as every other music photographer

October 14, 2005

brilliant stuff, love the highlights between the fingers

(even if you did copy my idea ;-)

October 13, 2005

in my opinion as a fellow music photographer:

- too much camera shake, motion blur on the singer

- it's not level

- the mic is covering his face and for a singer, that's the most expressive part of their face

- the lighting is really good, a touch overexposed though

- the monitors at the front are distracting

they are a great band to shoot though aren't they. here's one of my few shots of maximo park : here

October 13, 2005

another of my James Brown shots from a music festival in Ireland

earlier this year

October 11, 2005

it needs lots more contrast and tweaking with in photoshop to get something useable out of it in my opinion

October 11, 2005

great lighting and composition but it's very grainy (not in a good way) and very soft focusing going on there. also, with singers, their facial expression is often a key element and having the mic stands in the way here detracts quite significantly in my humble opinion as a fellow music photographer

October 11, 2005

good but as many have said before me, the huge horrible copyright sign takes away hugely from the aesthics of your pictures

October 10, 2005

the black and white lighting is a little too weird for me. a great image but because it's so 'black and white' it looks too processed even though it mightn't be

October 9, 2005

love this image. the colours, the grain, the angles of background light vs guitar. what side did you crop this from as it could be even better if you had more space on the right, left or bottom

October 8, 2005

i love everything about it apart from the blurry leg which looks a little out of place in the otherwise perfectly lit and sharp image with fantastic facial expression captured

October 4, 2005

brilliant colour pallette but that tv camera hood(?) in front of him just really takes away from the shot fomr me

October 2, 2005

a shot as part of a cd cover shoot of a 1927 Rolls Royce and a Dublin

rock band

October 2, 2005

fantasic shot, a little too overexposed on the guitar and his forehead and that shadow on his left leg is a little irritating but aside from that fantastic!

October 1, 2005

thanks for the comment ben, but the photo was for the cd inlay artwork for a famous fiddle player so i couldn't really photograph a different instrument for her

September 27, 2005

are most of your photos taken in the same venue? as all the lighting seems so consistant in your shots. i love how clean and perfectly exposed this shot is

September 26, 2005

for me it doesn't work. the shadows are far too light, the motion blur whilst being a slightly interesting technique isn't nearly strong enough to make up for what for me, is a very bland composition.

September 25, 2005

this shot is going to be liked a lot more than the last one by all the female brandon lovers out there. it's another brilliant shot and the toning and printing technique are superb

September 23, 2005

i don't mind the mic, it's not perfect symmetry anyway so i think i shows the meaning of why he's doing what he's doing what he's doing. who were you shooting them for?