Last night marked my first concert of 2012 and what a night. I didn’t catch one show, but two. The first show was City and Colour at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, the second time I’ve photographed this band at this venue. This time was different from the first though, instead of letting us shoot from the front of the stage they had all the photographers situated on the sides of the stage. This definitely presented a challenge as the angles aren’t any where near great, but you just have to adapt to the situation.
Another challenge was that the band flooded the first song and a half with blue lighting, the key here was patience and waiting for key moments in the song where you know the lighting would change briefly and that definitely paid off. Because we didn’t get a chance to do too much moving around, a lot of my shots looked quite similar, but these are some of my favorites below.
City and Colour, Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver – Images by David Thai