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Built to spill – keep it like a secret
B uilt to Spill is the brainchild of Doug Martsch, he is the only permanent member of the band, just how he planned it many moons ago in 1992. Doug originally envisioned a different lineup for every release. By the time Keep it Like a Secret was being born Doug was feeling burnt out from […]
SOUNDTRACK: 41
For my 41st year, I (Brian), will be posting weekly playlists of anything that catches my ear.
Sometimes I’ll just put my music library on shuffle for hours, but sometimes the first song will send me down a genre or artist rabbit hole. Other days, I’ll hear something that will remind me to listen to something I’ve forgotten about. I also have a habit of listening to bands a bit before I photograph them or dig into a festival lineup in the weeks leading up to it.
Follow along for some new discoveries, forgotten classics, and maybe even a few that would surprise you.
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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...
