Band shoot

"The making of..."

About a week ago a friend of mine asked me if I wanted to do a photo shoot for a metal band together with him. Of course I thought this was a very cool idea, so yesterday evening I packed my gear and we went to shoot some cool images of "Born Of Flames".

 

(The photo's shown in this blog are not (yet) edited)

First we shot some photo's of the complete band outdoors. I used a remote triggered Canon Speedlight 430 EXII with a shoot-through umbrella for this. It was still pretty bright outside but I wanted to make some darker looking photo's. To achieve this I used the manual mode and dialed in a low ISO value and a high aperture value. The shutter speed was 1/200 as this is the speedlights synch speed.

 

f/13 t:1/200 iso:400 23mm

f/13 t:1/200 iso:400 21mm

f/13 t:1/200 iso:400 18mm

f/13 t:1/200 iso:400 27mm, used reflector on front man to create fill light

After the outdoor session we shot some "action-shots" inside. Here we used some studio flashes with a snoot  (drummer) and gold-reflection umbrella's which were positioned at a low angle. It was hard to focus these images as the light was very low. The auto-focus system didn't know what to do with it, so I had to use manual focus. But also for the human eye it was hard to see if the image was sharp.

 

f/5 t:1/200 iso:800 46mm

f/4.5 t:1/200 iso:400 42mm

f/5 t:1/200 iso:400 59mm

f/4 t:1/200 iso:800 25mm

f/4 t:1/200 iso:200 33mm

It was pretty cool to do this shoot. It's not every day that you get a band-shoot request for a grunting metal band. For safety, I put some wet tisues in my ears during the action-shots :-)