10 Apr Sigur Ros – The Outtakes

Sigur Rós..I love this band! They aren’t for everyone but I think those of us who love ’em, love ’em with the same intensity that their music brings. Suffice it to say, I was thrilled when I got this assignment. Photo pit rules for this show only allowed for two songs from either side of the stage. Once I picked a side I was stuck there for the duration. Their songs are longer than most, so two songs was actually a pretty decent amount of shooting time…probably more than the standard three songs. The last couple shots I took from the upper bar area with a point and shoot. I didn’t want to bring out the big guns, since after my time in the pit, the cameras are supposed to stay in the bag if I opt to hang around for the show.

For this post I thought I’d do something different and highlight my outtakes instead of my selected images. These are mostly shots that were either under/over exposed and/or blurred because of a slow shutter speed (and in some cases because my focus was off — it happens 🙂 ).

Even though they are outtakes, there is still something I like about them…but you know, it’s all subjective. I chose to convert these to black and white because of color variations from being under/over exposed. Once I did the b&w conversion I thought, hey, these might look cool square and heavily vignetted…kind of a holga/toy camera look. Again, purely subjective.

If you want to see the gallery of images that made the edit, you can take a look at them over here on my photo archive.

And if you want to see what my photo editor published, you can take look over at SoundSpike, here.

Oh and if you don’t know the band, or even if you do, here’s their newest video: