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Taken at Gogol Bordello live at Roundhouse

I love taking crowd shots, during gigs it’s always hard capturing the crowd when you’re part of it, but once at the pit it’s nice to just turn around, not focus on the band for a bit and start photolising the crowd instead, they’re more than happy to really scream for the camera and it doubles the fun when you take shots and people somehow later on find themselves in the photo and comment on it (had that a number of times!).

Best photos are when you can get a piece of the band and the crowd, but that shot is usually when you’ve got a really nice wide lens, and you’re standing in the extreme side of the stage. Anyway, check out some more crowd shots:

Taken at Gogol Bordello live at Roundhouse

Their expressions are priceless! These guys were definitely having fun and eventually stu (the guy on the left) found his way to my blog to tell me it was him

Taken at Shearwater live at St Giles in the Fields

Sometimes you can do some pretty “arty” shots (especially in biblical churches). My friends John and Adam are in this shot, obviously not the couple in front (because that’ll be wrong)

Taken at I'm From Barcelona live at Scala

Confetti and crowds are pretty neat too, even when it’s just hands, hmm the balloons and confetti reminds me of this…

Taken at Muse live from Royal Albert Hall

Not sure if the portrait part of this work, crowd shots are usually of the landscape variety to give a sense of overwhelming number of people at the gig, but luckily i suppose this shot has balloons so having it in portrait allowed me to show the balloons, a wider shot would have obviously been the cure for this but whatever haha. Of course I was able to do a band and crowd shot, but just at a free rough trade gig with of Montreal playing, I had to walk to the extreme extreme right to take the shot, but it was worth it

Taken at of Montreal live at Rough Trade East

and I suppose this kinda counts?

Taken at Muse live from Royal Albert Hall

and then we can’t forget about the day where loads and loads of muse fans gathered around to sing songs for charity, got to love ninja photography.

Taken at Trafalgur Square, shit loads of musers

Think I can add loads and loads of notes to who’s who but I’ll probably let you do that if you find yourself in one of those shots! But yeah, crowd shots are ace, most of the time the venue is too dark to take photos of the crowd so the opportunity isn’t really there, but if you do come across a decent amount of light shining on the crowd, do try and turn around to take photos of them, they’re more important than the band in a sense that the band are the tree falling down and the crowd are the ears (or something stupidly silly but deep and meaningful at the same time).

On another note: It’s my birthday tomorrow, will probably write something more epic later on the day.