Shoot 3 Work Diary

When taking pictures for shoot, I decided to take my camera up to a gig in London Liverpool Street to see a band called Gengahr. I tried to get an accurate representation of going to see a gig, trying to include not only he performance but the overall experience of watching live music, for example I shot pictures of the ticket office, the ouside venue, band merchandise, the bar.

In this shot, I decided to focus on the technical aspects of the gig, as you can see the main focus of this image is placed on the sound technicians both exchanging words to one another about the sound levels and lights etc, the band, lighting and audience form a perfect backdrop behind the sound engineers. I really like the clarity and the sort of glazed look of the shot, the flash illuminates the backs of the audience, this contrasts nicely with the mute colours on the band. I feel the shot really captures the atmosphere in motion, and effectively shows the live event. The frame is the most effective formal element in the forming of this image, the only part of the shot which I don't like and think could be improved is the man on the left (the most exposed part of the image, only his ear and part of back of his head is visible) in some ways though it essentially focuses the viewers eye more on to the main subject of the sound engineers, and the band. The pictures successfully demonstrates British culture, within the subculture of music, as the band Gengahr, are an up and coming band, doing successful in the sphere of british independent music. 

I wanted to make sure when shooting live music music, I still captured the process of going to watch a gig, so in this image I took a picture of the venue itself that I went to, to see the band perform. I decided to not only shooting live band pictures but to show all the different elements that make up what it means to go to a live event. In this shot, I had the settings on a long shutter speed as you can see the light of the image ids a strange tinge of yellow, partly due to the light in the street and partly because of the camera setting, but due to the shutter speed you can see someone walking past in the image, and they are seen as a black shadow, this gives an interesting effect, and adds an altogether different element in the shot. This venue is based in London Liverpool Street, in Hoxton, it's a very small venue and tends to independent bands showing the relevance of independent music in British culture. 

                                                            Progression-

Within my shoots, in the future Live band photography indefinitely something I'd like to focus on reshoot, and develop, as I definitely think this is one of my strongest shoots so far, and music as a part of British culture is something that I find fascinating, and it's definitely a strong point in my photography as I know exactly how I want to display it visually.