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Favorites From Sixh – Animenext – June 11, 2011

Purplepenguin — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:06:21 +0000

These are my favorite shots from the Sixh show at Animenext. I wonder if these are the same fashions from all their shows (they’ve been touring around America at Anime Conventions) or if they choose different ones for each show. You can see all the pieces at www.purpleskymagazine.com

Mix Speaker’s, Inc. at Anime Next – June 10, 2011

Purplepenguin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 03:40:40 +0000

To be honest, all the songs blurred together. But the stage show was pretty fucking fantastic. The band was energetic (almost thought I was gonna get a foot in my lens) and the crowd was about as hardcore as you’re going to get for an anime convention (don’t shove meeeee, I have no deodorant on!). There was head banging and hair whipping and cute girls with sparkley light things waving around.

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girugamesh @ Crash Mansion NYC April 26, 2011

Purplepenguin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:49:33 +0000

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X Japan @ Roseland Ballroom 10/10/10

Purplepenguin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:17:44 +0000

It was a surprisingly good show. I think that’s what most people forget about X Japan. Once you get past all the cocky bullshit, schedule changes, lack of new music and general hype, you remember that they’re really good performers. It helps that the audience is super into them (wouldn’t matter if they came out smelling like dog shit and 3 hours late). It helps that their stage setup was quite epic with billows of smoke that shot up like flames and laser lights stabbing into the air. The whole show did sound like one long power ballad, but oh well, at least they looked spiffy.

And the X Japan show at Roseland is an example on being prepared. The photo pit was completely FUBAR. There were about 15 photographers too many in there. I counted 6 point and shoots in the photo pit. Then there were the folks with their 18-55 lens who were completely unprepared for how very very tall the stage is at Roseland and how very very far away the band members are. I ended up shooting the majority of the show with a 70-200 2.8 Sigma. Notes on the Sigma, it’s a nice lens for the price. I still prefer the Canon version, less backfocus and better coatings to reduce orbs and flare.

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Dir en grey @ Nokia Theater Times Square

Purplepenguin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:56:32 +0000

I got a little courageous with this show. After the great stuff that came out of the 135mm F2 lens, I decided to try out the 85mm F1.2. Results were pretty fantastic. I didn’t chance it so much with Dir en grey; I switched back to my 24-70 a song in. I did use the 85 for most of Apocalyptica and it helped that they tended to cluster together. You can now see some of these photos over at Prefix Mag too!

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