Oxjam Music Festival

Last week i volunteered to photograph the Oxjam music festival in Falmouth. Having never photographed a band before i researched some photography and advice on how to successfully capture images at a concert.

I studied photographers such as Leo Matus, a photographer that captures up close,low saturated images of live musicians and DJ's in L.A i found his style of photography to have similar aesthetics to the style that i had envisioned my self producing.The use of shadows and slower shutter speeds in his images create both mood and motions,this i feel creates a more dynamic images with a well portrayed concept capturing the narrative behind the musician/band.

For this shoot i planned to capture the musicians setting up before the gig began as i wanted to capture the whole story rather than just the main show. My aim was to capture a wide shot that had the band,the crowd and any other key elements of the room,i also wanted to capture some portraits of the musicians as i feel these can capture alot of narrative.As we are only allowed three images per person at work i decided that the last type of image i would try to get is the action shots that would help portray the atmosphere.

At the end of the evening i felt confident that the images would be exactly what i needed,however , once i had arrived home and the images were on my laptop i realized that when i re-set my camera it had changed the format to JPEG!!! because of this i am un able to utilize these images for my person at work project.