This was an assignment for a local paper - focus attention on the audience - so I did...



Canon PowerShot Pro70, Canon Speedlite 133A, Semi fisheye.
...a colour view of the stage:



... and finally my favourite of the audience - notice the little boy who doesnB4t seem to be having too much fun.



It would have been nice to have included the band as well, but the trench was incredibly wide - maybe because this band has cursed Denmark with one of the stupidest, most hard to kill, hits ever...

-- Christel Green (look.no@film.dk), November 07, 2000

Answers

My favorite is the last one.

I love to look for people who, for whatever reason, seem out of place. Perhaps I just sympathize?

Second, but perhaps more importantly, is the impression that the audience is in a cage.

Bri

-- brian reeves (brianr@alpha1.net), November 07, 2000.

The last shot is great. No need to include the band, it would only clutter things up.

-- rob dalrymple (robd13@erols.com), November 09, 2000.

Yeah! I told you flash at concerts was the way to go! :-)

The first image doesn't quite work for me. However, I think that with a longer exposure it would have been a great shot. (I was going to try something similar here but -- as you may have heard^[*] -- Britain is a little bit humid at the moment, so the photo opportunities are mostly limited to still lifes and under-water photography ...)

However, I'm always a sucker for detail in photos -- not everybody have the same ideals and it is and interesting graphical composition.

I love the second image. The colours are great. The fact that the performers are almost completely back-lit adds intrigue and mystery to the shot. Good one! (Did it get published?)

And the third one is funny! I adore that little guy. There seems to be an awfull lot of grey space in the image, but there is probably not much you could have done except perhaps try to shoot from a lower position. It also has a funny shape: did you crop it already?

[M]aybe because this band has cursed Denmark with one of the stupidest, most hard to kill, hits ever...

Ahhh, the wonderful little things I miss since I left... Denmark always was full of stupid little songs that everybody played. But we digress...

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[*] If you haven't: I think about twenty people have died in the floods over the last three weeks.

-- Allan Engelhardt (allane@cybaea.com), November 11, 2000.

I really love the third shot here. If it had been presented without any reference to a concert, it could have been a photo taken at the landing of a UFO. It's weird, but much more interesting to me than the kid is the woman at the extreme left, who seems to be clapping for something other than the rest of them.

I like the first one too, it captures the feel of the event. But what's going on, no-one seems to be surfing across the pit? Tame shows in Denmark? Hard to imagine with the trench.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), November 11, 2000.

Thanks guys :)

Jeff, this band is very mainstream, so you're not likely to see any surfing, slamming, head-banging or other extremes on the part of the audience :)

Allan, sorry to disappoint you (hehe) - it was #1 that got published. The last pic is cropped because I tried to include the stage, but with little success. The hit: "KALD det KC&C&C&C&rlighed" (God I hate it!)

Brian, "I love to look for people who, for whatever reason, seem out of place. Perhaps I just sympathize?" ...I can relate to that - very much :)

-- Christel Green (look.no@film.dk), November 12, 2000.