(Music Photography) Hard Working Class Heroes 2011

im...LOST

Hey all,

I was shooting the Hard Working Class Heroes festival last weekend and I thought I'd share some of my photos with you.

These are sort of the highlights so if you'd like to see more have a look in the sets below.

Thursday
Friday
Saturday

Not sure if it's frowned upon or not to have so many photos in one post but it was a weekend event and there was a lot of acts so it's only natural that there's lots of photos! Anyway, if a mod want's to clip it, feel free.

I'd love to know what you think. Were you there?


Spies-15.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Spies-3.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Funeral Suits-13.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Funeral Suits-20.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Boy Lights Fire-27.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Bitches With Wolves-18.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Come On Live Long-2 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Cloud Castle Lake-4 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Come On Live Long-5 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


The Gorgeous Colours-10 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


We Are Losers-9 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


SquareHead-12 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr



Le Galaxie-4 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Enemies-6 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Bats-7 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr

CabanSail

im...LOST wrote: »

Not sure if it's frowned upon or not to have so many photos in one post but it was a weekend event and there was a lot of acts so it's only natural that there's lots of photos! Anyway, if a mod wants to clip it, feel free.

What???
Bring on MORE quality photography. That should be what this place is about. Much more interesting than gear threads. Keep them coming.

im...LOST

More you say?


The Danger Is-1 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


We Are Losers-3 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


SquareHead-22 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


SquareHead-5 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Le Galaxie-10 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Bats-9 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Bats-8 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


The Gorgeous Colours-11 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Groom-3 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Spies-13.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Henrietta Game-15.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Funeral Suits-12.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Boy Lights Fire-1.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr


Bitches With Wolves-16.jpg by imLOSTirl, on Flickr

im...LOST

The Funeral Suits-12 one I love, but the finger being chopped off annoys me a little. But I think I was using a 50mm prime and if I moved any way to the right, I'd have cut the end of the bass so I'd be screwed either way

Ah well!

Thanks for the thanks, lads!

maddogcollins

Fantastic images... Hard to pick favourites out of them.

im...LOST

Thanks a million

I'm really loving the whole music photography game. I've been doing it for just under a year now!

Zillah

im...LOST wrote: »

SquareHead-22 by imLOSTirl, on Flickr

Yes.

im...LOST

Zillah wrote: »

Yes.

Haha! Love it!

gstar

these are great really enjoyed looking through this post. especially like "Le Galaxie-10" and "Come On Live Long-5 "

iamnothim

great shots! nice to see someone getting good live music photos where so very many are failing so miserably.

(plus, you have one of my missus in there...)

homerun_homer

Music Photography is great. Keeps you on your toes. I haven't got to take much gig photography this year unfortunately.

im...LOST

iamnothim wrote: »

great shots! nice to see someone getting good live music photos where so very many are failing so miserably.

(plus, you have one of my missus in there...)

The Danger Is?

homerun_homer wrote:

Music Photography is great. Keeps you on your toes. I haven't got to take much gig photography this year unfortunately.

That's for sure! Constantly changing settings as the light changes and changing the composition because the artists are moving. It's good fun though. Really enjoying it.

maddogcollins

It is something I would love to get into. I went to Royseven last night and was just too shy to go towards the front of the stage. Did it take you long to get used to going towards the front and just snapping away? I suppose it's out of my comfort zone. A tree or an ocean wont look at you with a "Will you stop" eye.

Would love to have shots like these, even for my own personal collection. I got two decent shots last night.

Reoil

Did you get any photos of Amidships?
(The Button Factory)

im...LOST

maddogcollins wrote: »

It is something I would love to get into. I went to Royseven last night and was just too shy to go towards the front of the stage. Did it take you long to get used to going towards the front and just snapping away? I suppose it's out of my comfort zone. A tree or an ocean wont look at you with a "Will you stop" eye.

Would love to have shots like these, even for my own personal collection. I got two decent shots last night.

Got some of Royseven myself a while back. Quite the photogenic band!

Ordinarily, I get a photo pass when I'm shooting in Dublin venues. I was shooting HWCH for AU Magazineand the venues there didn't have pits like most bigger venues do.

"Will you stop" eye.

Most bands love the attention! Fire them a tweet or a FB message afterwards and they'll more often than not love to see them. Especially at HWCH, most of the bands are all relatively unknown so there is even less of a chance that they'll give you the "will you stop" eye.

Photography kinda goes hand in hand with music in that bands all need pictures for the social media to help convey their style and mood.

I shoot in the Spirit Store, Dundalk the odd time and it's a small venue. The normal rule for big venues is the first 3 songs and then you are done with photos. I just use that rule in small venues too. Basically it allows you to get your job done and not p*ss off all the paying customers aswell. I mightn't put my camera away completely just on the off chance that the artist does something cool/interesting.

There's nothing more annoying than a photographer running around throughout the whole gig.

im...LOST

Reoil wrote: »

Did you get any photos of Amidships?
(The Button Factory)

I didn't, I'm afraid. Can't be everywhere unfortunately!

Reoil

Awk arse.
There was a photographer there for us, but I didn't get a chance to speak to him.
I'm used to taking the gig photos rather than being the person getting photographed!

Steve.

www.stephenlynn.co.uk

homerun_homer

im...LOST wrote: »

That's for sure! Constantly changing settings as the light changes and changing the composition because the artists are moving. It's good fun though. Really enjoying it.

I took photos as I had photos in the exhibit 2 years ago, then I was playing in a band last year so only took some photos of a friend's band the first night. Missed out on being at it this year. I haven't got to use a good camera properly at a gig this year which I'm disappointed with.

im...LOST wrote: »

Most bands love the attention! Fire them a tweet or a FB message afterwards and they'll more often than not love to see them. Especially at HWCH, most of the bands are all relatively unknown so there is even less of a chance that they'll give you the "will you stop" eye.

I used to try and contact bands and failed to hear anything back pretty much all of the time. Funnily though I've had bands chase me about photos I took and wanting to use them for their myspace/facebook but unfortunately most of my own requests went ignored. I didn't want to think my music photos were that bad.

im...LOST

homerun_homer wrote: »

I took photos as I had photos in the exhibit 2 years ago, then I was playing in a band last year so only took some photos of a friend's band the first night. Missed out on being at it this year. I haven't got to use a good camera properly at a gig this year which I'm disappointed with.



I used to try and contact bands and failed to hear anything back pretty much all of the time. Funnily though I've had bands chase me about photos I took and wanting to use them for their myspace/facebook but unfortunately most of my own requests went ignored. I didn't want to think my music photos were that bad.

Ah, yeah. I meant smaller bands love the attention. Getting any recognition from the bigger bands/acts is near impossible.

And I really like your stuff btw!

iamnothim

the thing with bigger bands is, they gig a lot, and get photographed a lot, and get emailed about it a lot. there's very few angles of themselves they havent seen.

if you want a plug from them, email the managers directly with a few moderately low-resolutions shots so as to avoid massive attachments, and give them permission to use them for free, if of course you're comfortable with that. I do this after most gig I shoot, and, include a note about how I'm available for portrait work if they require it with a link to my website/portfolio.