On assignment of sorts for the Washington City Paper, I shot Extra Golden’s show on Monday night at the Black Cat. I wrote up the show here, so I won’t go into the music in this blog. Photographically, this was a fun show to shoot, even though the lighting was low and static. I was locked in at ISO 3200, f/2.8, 1/100 sec, shutter speeds varying by only about a third of the stop for basically the whole show. I was using a recently acquired (used and relatively cheap!) 17-55/2.8 almost exclusively.

The show was at the Black Cat’s small backstage - low stage, static lighting, and a useful gap between the performers and concertgoers that narrowed when the band requested that everyone take a few steps forward. I was able to move around pretty freely until that happened. Pretty much the only real challenge was the low lighting - I probably should have used my 50/1.8 a little more for the drummer and one of the guitarists who was standing in shadow the whole show.

Full set is here at Flickr.

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