Concert Photography

Concert photography for rap artist WhiteLightTheFrequency.

Halloween 2024 Calgary at club IYKYK opening for Roney.

It has been around 20 years since I’ve gigged in a nightclub. Not much has changed. The room was in a downtown basement of an old heritage style type building. The front door faced right off the sidewalk and staged its own show. This was an environment I was very used to.

I met her in the lobby of the club, she called me out as I walked past. She was working her brand very well, I was impressed with her confidence, she was gigging.

 The show room was dark, there was no light on the stage. There were a dozen Chinese disco lights over the dancefloor set to audio random that served no use to me. The stage had an LED back wall which provided a glow from behind but that was it. And of course the sound sucked.

I clamped a Speedlight flash to a large fan that was bolted to the sidewall in the back of the room. I wrapped the fixture in a cut of R33 gel to wash the stage. I will bring more strobes and colour the next time I work with a stage.

I would be real happy to do more show photography, it’s a subject matter I understand well.