The 2008 Photographic Review Continues…
Rather than wait until the end of the year I thought I’d undertake Part I of my photography review of 2008 at the close of June wait until the end of the year to publish Part I of my annual photography review.
Closing 2007 out with José González was always going to be difficult to beat, and while the beginning of 2008 has not had quite the same hectic nature to it as 2007 was it has still proven to be fruitful on the photography front. But anyway, read on…
The 2008 Photographic Review.
She’s cute, she’s fun, has a powerful voice and I have a major (photographers) crush on her (but she’s taken, having married her guitarist a while back). Kate Miller-Heidke is back, ladies and gentlemen, (her fans indeed come from both sides) and with a new album to boot.
I had the opportunity to shoot the Queenslander when she was in Sydney in April and played two shows at The Annandale Hotel (a location that was indeed unusual for her to play - full set of shots, with this one in particular being a favourite with Google image search). Through this I was tracked by Kate’s manager and we organised a pass for Friday’s show at The Spiegeltent
More shots after the break or the full set at flickr.
Ben Ven Grootel, a mate of mine from The Root 42, headed over to the east coast on tour with his band Streetlight from Perth and asked me to grab some shots for them. The Annandale Hotel has also increased their rig and pulled out all stops on the main stage today.
The Annandale Hotel has recently invested in some new lighting kit - specifically a rig of 8 LED lights. Now, normally I’d not be terribly impressed, but in this case I give full thumbs up. They’re being used specifically as fill lighting with smoke not as primary lights and they’ve hence been able to retire a few of the old PAR56s to their primary role - lighting people and objects instead of filling smoke with light.
Anyhow, for those fellow photographers interested, here’s an example of where The Annandale Hotel is headed with their lighting rig (note: the front-of-house lighting bar was not on for this shot and is used to compliment the back lighting with some nice white light on the face (although half the bar is gel’d yellow)
More shots after the break or the full set at flickr.
Everybody loves the sunshine!
Roy Ayers touched down for one of Niche Productions biggest gigs of 2008. Despite nearing seventy this man of funk and soul, backed by an amazing array of talent in his band, kept a packed Forum crowd on their feet for nearly 90 minutes!
Backing him up were Melbourne’s The Bamboos and Nostalgia 77 mixing it up on the decks.
More shots after the break or the full set at flickr.