Lupe Fiasco at Tripod
Lupe Fiasco at Tripod last night.
Great gig, and I’m really happy with the shots.
He has a great stage presence and did not stop moving around, which is both a blessing and a curse for photographers.
A lot of the time, I’d only just get a chance to focus on him before he started jumping around again, and plenty of my shots were blurred by him moving, but I would have had a much harder time getting a good few different angles in the allowed three songs, if he had stayed in the one spot the whole time.
They turned out well anyway, though I’m still kind of shocked I managed to take 360 shots in three songs.
And my favourite of the show:
As usual, there’s more on flickr
April 7th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Really nice, clear shots… great work
April 21st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Hey, these are great shots! The focus is quite sharp, was your lens a high f-stop? I love rappers’ originality for pics, some come out so photogenic!
April 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Thanks Nay
These were all taken at f/2.8.
You’re right about rappers being photogenic, and it helps when there’s no mic stands or other band members in the way.
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Bloody brilliant quality for 2.8!! Don’t tell me it’s the wide-angle Sigma (I noticed you use one)?
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Yeah it’s the Sigma 24-70 f/2.8, think the nice bright lighting of a big venue helps.
Had a hard time deciding which lens I’d use (3 songs, so little chance to swap) but he was moving around the stage so much I wanted a zoom rather than a prime so i could follow him without moving around too much.
There was a slight incident involving Fight Like Apes in UCD that resulted in possible breaking of the lens, but I’m not sure. As far as I can tell, it’s just manual focusing is broken and auto is OK, so I think I can get away with using it for another while.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
I have one of those sigmas as well, I learned to shoot gig photos on it and really love the wide angle it gives, plus the zoom, in well-lite shows it was always a nifty go-between the primes and telescopics. however since picking up a Nikkor prime (1.4) I can’t bear to use the old 2.8 because the grain is dreadful if you’re on 1600 ISO in a small venue like the Boom Boom Room. That’s why I was so shocked to see such great quality in these shots!
May 12th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Hmmm. I don’t want to come across all psycho keen, seeing as I just commented on your awesome FLA shots, but these too are brilliant!