It’s Fez Presents time again! Check out my portfolio as Music Photographer Sheffield.
Fez is one of my oldest and favourite clients in Sheffield. This time, they are throwing a party at Foundry & Fusion inside Sheffield Student’s Union, where my other beloved party organiser The Tuesday Club is hosting the events.
The reason I love this venue is the proper high up stage they have just makes a music photographer’s life much easier. Thinking about 20 fan boys and girl all squeeze in a tiny DJ booth in the club….. Eek, I can never get a proper shot of DJ without lots of admiring heads in. Some might say it captures the amazing atmosphere. Well, as long as the artists don’t mind about crazy fans jumping around and rubbing behind them! (I recently watched a video clip that a DJ literally stopped the music and shouted at the girl just randomly kissed him) However this will never (hopefully) happen when there is a proper stage!
When Skream was in town last time, as a Music Photographer Sheffield I photographed him at Fez Club. I changed my slightly for most of my music clients this year, adding a touch of milky black with grain in shadow and making it extra sharp. This applied quite well especially at venues like Foundry & Fusion and O2 Academy.
Luckily the amazing videographer Oscar who was also working at the event, lent me his 24mm 1.4 lens so I could have a try on some low light non-flash shots. The outcome was awesome. I tend to minimise my intervention when I’m photographing an event so people will act in the most natural way and the artist can focus on spinning. This lens really helped! With a decent wide-angle and super big aperture I managed to get loads cool shots of Skream. Especially the red silhouette one with smoke coming out from his back (see below).
View the full album and don’t forget to check out this awesome video made by Oscar.
