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Broken Bells -Broken Bells
When this album came out Danger Mouse was arguably one of the hottest producers. In late 2009, Paste Magazine named him the best producer of the decade (2000-2009). In 2004 he released The Grey Album, a combination of a capella versions of Jay Z’s Black Album and Instrumental samples from The Beatles’ White Album. The album led to collaborations with Damon Albarn of Gorillaz, MF Doom, CeeLo Green, Jack White, Beck, and The Black Keys all before eventually collaborating with The Shins frontman, James Mercer as Broken Bells in 2010.
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Before / Foxy Shazam
Not only do I enjoy their music, but they are super fun, albeit a bit challenging to photograph as well. They use lots of fog and heavily saturated backlighting with minimal front light. That can make for a lot of trial and error in the pit as the brightness of the lighting can vary drastically moment to moment. My approach to a show like this is to start by figuring out the settings for the darkest moments I’m trying to capture. My goal is usually to keep my shutter speed around 400 or higher and my aperture at f4.0 or higher and then figure out the lowest I can set my ISO and still get usable photos. I do this because, as I mentioned previous Before/After posts, I’d rather have noise than motion blur or too shallow of depth of field. Once that’s set I try to keep my aperture the same and only roll my shutter speed to adjust exposure. By doing that, I’m able to focus on only changing one setting through the whole time I’m shooting...