Highlight: Getting to shoot from the balcony for some amazing venue shots.
Lowlight: The Lights! Blue led lights pointing right into the camera from all around the stage with four straight on spots resulting in four microphone shadows on the artists chin! All week!
Fill in: I had got a pass through the venue about a month in advance for this series of six nights, but the press pass was not sorted until the day before and because of the popularity of the sessions it was likely that I would have to shoot from the balcony for the week. It was mixed blessings. Shooting from the balcony meant I would get great venue shots and sweeping vistas, but in terms of saleable shots of the artists it was not such good news. I ended up hiring a long lens just in case, hired the wrong lens, changed it, but in the end the lovely Amazing PR made room for me in the pit after the first night so I got the best of both worlds. Fixation were a bit surprised though when my long suffering partner kept turning up every day to either pick up, drop off or cancel whopping great lenses.
Tech Spec: Blue back light is bad. Magenta front light is bad. Spotlights straight on is bad. Low lighting rig is bad. It was an all round bad situation for lighting as far as photography was concerned. Trying to avoid putting beard son everyone, giving them a pallor of a heart attack or a huge halo around their heads was most of the battle. The best one could do was wait for the artists to move their bodies so they blocked out the back lights whilst simultaneously moving the mike away from their faces. In the case of Coldplay the colour cast was so strong my best shots really only worked in black and white.
For further details: littlenoisesessions.org.uk/
www.stjohnathackney.org.uk/
www.gettyimages.co.uk
www.mencap.org.uk/
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