Posts Tagged ‘live music’

Enrique Inglesias live at the O2 with his Euphoria tour

Friday, April 1st, 2011

A great night at the O2 a few days ago documenting Enrique Iglesias‘ Eurphoria tour.  LD Travis Shirley had a huge array of Martin Mac101‘s in motion-control pods.  The punch of these small LED units is really amazing.  Here are some of the stills of the concert and there will be a bit of video to follow.

The Nikon D7000 once more proved its worth; all of the long lens shots below are from it with the 70-200 f/2.8. In low light it’s fast to find focus and the viewfinder is bright enough to allow accurate manual focusing too.  Then for when you need to grab an important video clip, just hit record and thanks to the VR on the lens you can get a steady hand-held shot which looks amazing both on the monitor and in the edit suite the next day at 1080p HD.  Oh, and all that in a light-weight body which won’t give you back ache and with a tiny battery which only used 12% of it’s capacity shooting stills and video for 3 hours solid.  If only the buffer on it could cope with continuous raw shooting like the D3 can…I guess that will soon available in the form of a D700 follow-up.

James Blunt plays the Hammersmith Apollo

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

The video of James Blunt playing the Hammersmith Apollo has just been finished. The video was produced for Martin Professional to highlight their new MAC101 and MAC101CT LED moving light.  Filmed during a very small window at James’ Hammersmith Apollo gig, I didn’t have long to get all the footage.  I was mostly shooting stills during the gig, so the film was grabbed during the encore at the end.  Offline editing by Ed McGown and Online by Jon Coutts.

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James Blunt live at the Hammersmith Apollo

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

James Blunt’s new tour has just kicked off in London at the Hammersmith Apollo and I was lucky enough to asked to shoot it. I shot stills and a tiny amount of video in one very busy evening. Here are a few stills and the video is currently being edited. I’ll post it when it’s finished.

You can see more pictures from the shoot here…

The tour features a Martin Professional rig including the new Mac101 and 101CT among others.