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Of Montreal @ The Pheonix May 3rd, 2011

Posted on May 11, 2011 | 1 comment

Hey all, Of Montreal, what a band, what a show! I had the pleasure of getting to see them and be allowed to take the camera in for photos only, no video, no audio and no flash. Fine by me, thats what I like, that’s what this site is all about!

Anyway, I had heard of this band from a pro photog’s website, Todd Owyoung at ishootshows.com (great concert photography site for inspiration, tips and more). The band looked like they put on a good show, visually as well as musically of course. You see, I had never heard of them. It just establishes my point that there are so many great bands out there to see and hear nowadays that it is difficult to keep up on everything. I did the myspace and website search to hear some of their stuff and was immediately dead-set on checking them out if they came to Toronto.

So May 3rd was it, at the Pheonix Concert Theatre in Toronto, which is a great venue. This was a very entertaining performance, I had a blast taking shots, meeting fans, enjoying the music, lots of fun for the band and the audience, with great stage antics by several non musician members, from a psuedo (aren’t they all) WWF wrestling match, to some more adult oriented entertainment ;), reminded me of bands like the Tubes and Flaming Lips amongst others. I would put this in the ‘sexual-spastic-psychadelic fantazmical rock n’ roll show’ category if I had one like that. I am now a fan and will check them out again next time round.

I’ll let the pictures do the talkin’ now, enjoy

Mike

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Of Montreal

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Posted in Alternative, club photography, Concert Photography, lightshow, psychadelic, punk, Rock

Tagged alternative, Phoenix Concert Theatre, psychadelic, the pheonix

Concert Photography, WordPress, Lightroom, Websites, here we go!

Posted on February 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

This is my first official post on stratophotography.com, a website to, first of all, display my photos of live music, concerts, bands, all things musical……, and 2nd, learn how to use WordPress to make a Photography Website to show them off.

My plan here is to post stories about the images, such as how I took them, details on equipment and camera settings, problems I encountered and what I did to resolve them. Also, to continually update the Gallery with new collections from future shows I attend. (King Cobb Steelie & Of Montreal coming in May). Up till then I will be adding image galleries from 2009/2010 and early 2011 plus an occasional scanned gem or two from the film days(lots of stories there). There will be a bias towards the local Toronto scene, thankfully there is no shortage of bands to check out. There is always something or someone who calls me out to take photos.

I may also post about using WordPress and all of the brain cramps that can result from messing with plugin’s, themes and setting it all up to work, all without knowing how to code html or php or xtc or yadday dataisjsjs!!!

You will also see me on occasion list links to websites and articles I find useful in some photographic way.

I will also talk about using my photo management and editing software, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, and how I use it as my ‘digital darkroom’ to pretty much, and then some, replicate what I used to do in a traditional darkroom. It is an amazing piece of software for the photographer.