Lowlight: Yes. The light was low. Except for the strips lights, bare bulbs and reflector dishes blazing right into the lens. It looked great for the acts but was a nightmare to shoot.
Fill in: Private showcases from industry megastar Will I Am, hot band of the moment Florence and the Machine, young new upstarts Minus Behaviour, the new Pavarotti Joseph Calleja, and the afore mentioned Michael Kiwanuka. Amazing voices, amazing dancers and amazing personalities from all genres of the music scene made up the entertainment for this 2 day MD conference with an added bonus as Rhianna waltzed in to say hello in the middle of a presentation. Together with dinner at the Savoy attended by the legendary Jimmy Lovine it was a pretty cool job.
Tech Spec: Never have the light source going straight into the lens if you can help it. Of course if the whole background is made up of light sources of the worst possible kind for photography (led strip lights, tungsten bare bulbs and huge dish reflectors) then you either have to get at an angle where they are not in the background or wait for something to move between the lens and the light source to block it. With Florence it was fairly straight forward to use her to block the dish reflectors and they even added a good back light to her golden shawl and fiery hair. I moved at a sharp angle to the stage for Michael and the bare bulbs separated his hair from the background. Minus Behaviour however moved at 160 beats per minute for the whole set so it was tricky even pinning them down for any kind of shot, let alone one that allowed for the lighting. They had the strips lights and saturated magenta spots from the front and they were wearing black. I managed got some individuals but the group shots were few are far between. Joseph, Will I ma and Jimmy were all shot in the conference rooms so it was just a matter of setting the white balance of the camera to compensate as much as possible for the pink, lilac cast.
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