The show was muscular, sweaty, passionate, and ethereal. It was also my first concert that I brought my camera to and I now cannot imaging attending another without it. I shot over 500 pictures during the course of a hour and a half set, it worked out to around a snap every 10 seconds which means I watched the show through the lens.

Management and I had a brief discussion of what glass but decided to travel as light as possible: Canon EF 50mm f1.4, Canon EOS 350D, spare battery, spare memory card, and a cleaning cloth. The 50mm was the best choice as the lighting was tricky and most of the shots bounced around the 400-1600 ISO range but a little post work in UFRaw and Gimp help rescue some of the noisier images. The smaller aperture Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 would likely have been useless in that lighting and changing glass in tight quarters likely would have been a recipe for heartbreak on my part.

You can see the full set on Flickr.