Well sorry about the delay in my posts and thank you for
giving me over 1600 page views on my Download review featuring Slash on the
Zippo stage! Means a lot to me! I have been very busy these last few months
both with my education and also photographing bands and a festival for the Olympics
(not as exciting as it sounds). Anyway I was a photographer at the Sheftival
festival in Sheffield at the Don Valley stadium and it was a fantastic weekend
for two reasons; the first being our Jess won gold and the second there was a
great selection of bands across two stages. I won’t be posting a review on the
festival on here but if you go over to The Sheffield Scenester you can see my
review on there plus loads of my photos that I took for them.
So I am thinking of getting a new SLR camera as mine is
really outdated for what I need it for (live music photography) so I was thinking
of upgrading to the Canon 6D or the canon 5D mark 3 by Christmas time and
hopefully a good 2.8 F/ lens by next summer in time to shoot Download festival
or Sonisphere festival if they get their act together...
On to the next thing and that is my experience I had with
shooting The Cult a few weeks ago (again the review and photos can be seen on
The Sheffield Scenester website). It was horrendous, I had to sign a photo
release which stated they owned all the photos and then to also find out that
it was BS as they went against what they said in the release. Shooting from the
crowd and fighting for the best shoot position isn’t fair on their
photographers or on the crowd who have paid for the ticket! No pit access was
allowed and we eventually had to shoot from the back... good job I had my handy
200mm lens with me with an F/4. Killing Joke had already backed out so it was
just the right grabbers and The Mission to shoot who, by the way, posted on
their site an apology about the shooting situation stating it was all The Cult’s
managements fault for the whole matter.... unreal.
Well coming up this week I’ll be shooting W.A.S.P at the
Leeds O2 and then on Saturday I’ll be shooting a new and upcoming band Swiss
Lips at Sheffield’s own Leadmill, and I wa requested to cover the night by the
PR company Hall or Nothing... I felt chuffed when they asked me to.
Until then...
Don’t forget to check out my Facebook, my Twitter @myleswright90 and TheSheffield Scenester for my reviews and photos!!
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