Last night I had the opportunity to drive to up to Sydney to photograph the brilliant and funny band, Steel Panther.
It was a fantastic but tough gig as I have just had my tonsils removed so wasn't in the best headspace to photograph a concert. I managed how ever to get some great photos, even with a ridiculously busy pit with about 15 photographers and videographers vying for the same shots.
Yesterday I went up to Sydney to see Snow Patrol play at the Hordern Pavillion with my mother and sister. They are my favourite band and have been for a while now. This concert was the 4th time I had seen the band play live. I had tried to arrange a Media pass to get into the photographers pit but unfortunately this didn't happen. Not to worry. As usual we were up the front of the mosh infront of Paul the bass player. I managed to tweak the settings on my Canon IXUX 75 camera to at least get some slightly reasonable photos of the guys.
I can only imagine how good they would have been if I had had my DSLR there.
Had another nice long chat to Paul and Gary (lead singer) after the show and Paul had a look through my shots from the night; "Really! Awesome" was his response.
Here are a couple of the shots from the night. (Please forgive the "noise")
Paul From Snow Patrol. (Taken With IXUX 75)
Paul From Snow Patrol. (Taken With IXUX 75)