Par : FrF.Kmeron, 11-01-2010 - 12:22
Tags : Concert - dock of the bay - milliardaires - ruacutane

What about trying to blog a little bit more? I barely have the time ’cause i willingly chose to work before everything else on my pictures, but well, sometimes, its cool to write some stuff in here, even if its small talk so well, Friday nite, was on my way to « le clos des milliardaires » (aka « billionnaire’s street », named after a closed and secured street nearby that is supposed to have houses belonging to billionnaires….) to see once again the Lo-Fi pop of Ruacutane, Belgian band that already has a cd, and a very nice cover from Ottis Redding « sittin’ on the dock of the bay » song.

First thing is that it’s cold right now, -3.5c to be exact right now, brrRRrrrR

Arrived on time, but it looked more like a club than a pub or a gig venue. well.. we went slowly in, to see a bar and proper instruments -or maybe is it just a hype place, im kinda not used to those you know…- but well, with 45mn behind schedule, a martini bianco for the lady and a coke for me (11 euros for both, gosh its not easy to be a gentleman and a billionnaire i say!! #WTF)

Now the question remains : How do you shoot a Band that even if it’s cool to hear such melodies, actually have a lack of lighting, or at least a very bad ones (not very bad, lack of possibilities i’d say, 2 big colored spots…). Well, then you can’t do much actually, can’t wait for any cute rims of volumetrics (my 2 favorites things in concert photography for sure), nope, you go back to the expressions, the rythm, the movement, otherwise, it just look like a scene taken from ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas » :

They really are less stressed than the first time i saw them @le bar du matin some months ago when they launched the album, everything goes very very smoothly, and it’ll be overall something like a 45minutes gig, Sandra, even a little sick, is really capable of showing a lot in her voice, almost breaking, quiet and sweet, very swell sensation, adding the bass and slight keyboards its really cool popish songs ^^

The singer has the bad (photographically-wise) habit to pretty much never leave the mic, and bc its a small place, of course can’t make it to the side to be able to have something else than a « mouth mic », well, that kind of things happen, but its clearly a bummer.. and ill probably buy a 35mm next week to have more « space » around the frame in such small venues, cause right now with a 50mm (closer to 85mm bc im not in full frame, and im sure ive lost 93.6% of the 10 readers i have at this point…), in the meantime, you just say your doin’ photo « the arty way »

I love black & white pictures. it just gives you straight expressions, contrasts, things, that can be sometimes disturbed by beautiful colors or lack of contrast, no B&W is really sometimes what makes me love photography the most, showing the moment, this little time where something happend, no artefacts, bc, in the end, do we remember more a movement or the color of the wall that nite? True here its just a necessity, otherwise the image is pretty much not readeable if that makes any sense ^^

But sometimes people just don’t like it ahah, i’ve talked with Puggy ’s lighter, that told me that he sometimes just doesn’t get why photographer are putting their pics in B&W, that he « chose the colors of those lights, but well, i know that for you guys, red just sucks in pictures, i know ». He totally got it right, true its sometimes nice in some songs, but when it comes to photography in concert, red suxx, big time, you have no contrast, everything is burnt and all ewwwww, so usually, if u see a B&W pics in here, either there was way too many red in the scene or its out of focus ahah \o/

So well, crossing my fingers for them, who knows someday they’ll be able to hit on their own a cool venue, with sweet lo-fi like that who knows, a movie score, and ad, something, anything, but overall, very nice people afterwards « hey, i know i knew ur face! »  » yeah, ur the guy from the pics last time and that is making a concert a day! » « errr yeah, more or less ahah » but well, all the best, and ill be there next time, if they level up between each gigs like that, the best is still to come!

Loooping was also happy because he set to cross Igmar’s path again (true its a boys name and the duck ’s got eyelashes, but i ask the lady « we told me i was in charge of the duck for the way back home so well » me « whats her name? » « errrr, no name i think or is it? nooo, dont think so, lets say.. igmar… » so igmar was named ahah ^^ and for the record, in Belgium, kiss on a chick from a guy you never saw before, very welcoming, true, but i still just dont get it (and its been 2 years that im here you know…)

To finish, the cover recorded that nite « Dock of the Bay »

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