Wednesday 2 November 2011

Tori Amos at Royal Albert Hall

Highlight: Getting into the soundcheck and Tori performing a song exclusively for the purpose of photos. The woman knows what she wants.

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Lowlight:
About 15 photographers all trying to squash into one place as Tori plays piano, so the optimum angle of view to shoot her is fairly narrow.
Fill in: Have photographed the lovely Tori lots of times and she always does an exclusive performance for the photographers in the soundcheck. She plays keyboards and piano, sometimes at the same time so it mass for interesting photographs and she always looks dramatic.


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Tech Spec: The light was well balanced for background and foreground but it came mainly from above so to get any life in her expression Tori needed to look up. Luckily she did this several times during the song she played for us. There were about 15 of us and not much room to manoeuvre but I ended up in a space where she was facing most of the time. I shot on two cameras to get a close up and a wide without having to waste time changing lenses as one song is not a great amount of time.

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