Posts Tagged ‘straight edge’
Die Youngs Last show
Texas Hardcore legends Die Young played their last show this past saturday after 7 years. It was great photographing this band over the past couple of years, and I’m sure there will be other projects in the near future from the guys in the band. They ended it with a 8 band show in the bands home town of Houston, TX at Walters on Washington. I took close to 2000 photos that evening, and edited them down heavily, due to the amount I’m going to show some favorites from the last two bands, and the rest can be viewed on my Photoshelter account here.
The lineup was:
The Separation
Legion
Mammoth Grinder
The Golden Age
Dead City
Folsom
Seven Generations
Diy Young
Die Young
Seven Generations
Who is also about to play their last show, I was glad to see this band once before they ended it. Their set reminded me why I got into and love Hardcore Punk music. I could feel the raw energy this band put off with such emotion during the whole set, and tried to capture it as best as I could.
Info on the lighting used:
The venue was super dark, a bit to dark fro the D700 even, and to capture enough detail from the show I had to light it. Instead of using the small pop-up flash attached to my camera, or a larger strobe attached to the hotshoe I instead put up two Nikon SB-25′s triggered wirelessly with cybersyncs. First one was stage left and all the way to the back behind the gear, it was gelled with a 1/2 CTO. Second was stage right and just off the stage at the front corner up against a pillar out of the way from the crowd and safe, it was gelled with a full CTO.
Corpus Christi Benefit
I made a trip down to Corpus with Coptic Times and Hold Fast for a benefit show to help out the families of a recent car wreck cause by a drunk driver. 1 life was lost, and another still stuck in the hospital, R.I.P. Cris Issac. It was awesome to see how a small group of hardcore kids around Texas came together for this show and to benefit the families, over $1,000 was raised from this first set of shows around Texas.
Here are a few photos I managed to grab, all with my 35mm ƒ2 lens attached to my D700, what is slowly becoming my favorite setup. I kept this show simple with just the camera and no lights setup like I have been playing around with a few shows back, I’ve really been enjoying the low light capabilities of the D700.
The Golden Age
Killer Ape
Sudden Death
Some new Straight Edge band from Dallas area that doesnt have a name yet?
Coptic Times
Bitter End
and the much anticipated HoldxFast reunion show
The rest of the pictures can be viewed here, as well as if you purchase a print from this set the proceeds will be donated to the families.
