Lowlight: Forgotten how deep, wide and high the stage is.
Fill in: Forgot the trick of bringing a camera box that one can stand on - although this is not always allowed. Also forgot how to look through camera with one eye and keep the other on the TV cameras so their booms don't whack you in the head or their cables don't trip you over....
Covered this to get my hand back in at shooting arena gigs. Pop bands pose a difficult problem as everyone is always keen to get them together and they are invariably spread out across the whole of the stage.
The Boyz were lowered down from the ceiling which was pretty spectacular - and without a safety net!
Tech Spec: Nikon D3 - ISO 800, Aperture F4 (to make most of light but also keep depth of field shallow). WB - daylight (spotlights tend to be daylight balanced).No flash allowed but I would not have used it anyway as the light was bright. Shutter 1/250 (the boys move pretty fast). Only difficulty was the contrast was low due to lots of backlighting causing glare even with the lenshoods on, so in the processing I compressed the tonal range at the black end for deeper blacks and richer blues.
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