The guys who make up The Gents - Edvard Mansson (bowtie wearing Swede lead singer/guitarist, Francis Carlisle (English singer/lead guitar, Ian James (English co-worker bassist harmonizing playboy), and Timothy Seekings (German drummer/manager) - asked me the other night at their Wednesday gig at Acapella whether I was interested in going to take some shots at their Shangrila gig the following day. The lure was that there would be Chinese models - tall, lean and gorgeous - doing some catwalk like performance, and they may even be wearing bikinis...
So, as a budding photographer and artist I jumped at the chance to take photos of...The Gents at Shangrila. After all, the lighting system would surely be good and I would be able to get some creative shots. Models in bikinis? Okay, that's a nice bonus.
We went to the hotel and the entire ballroom area was booked out. It was pretty massive. Roughly 200 banquet tables? Something like that. The guys did their soundcheck and we just took some seats next to the stage and waited around. They eventually started the night with "Country Roads" and then soon took the stage again for 6-7 songs while everybody was eating. It was a really good set, the sound was great and they looked pretty epic onstage with the great lighting system.
And now, below are the photos that I took and then developed in Adobe Lightroom to my taste. Pretty happy with the results; in fact, I think the photos make their little dinner service background music more elaborate and epic than it really was. Job well done. They treated me to Indian food at Family Curry. It was fantastic but the next day I (and Tim!) had a bit of food poisoning. Damn you Indian food!
Click the photos to see the bigger shots. Also check out my flickr to see more of my best shots
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eric-hevesy/
Also, I'll be posting The Beijing Beatles concert, the models from the Shangrila, the Basement Collective Band, and more Gents from Acapella shots soon!
So, as a budding photographer and artist I jumped at the chance to take photos of...The Gents at Shangrila. After all, the lighting system would surely be good and I would be able to get some creative shots. Models in bikinis? Okay, that's a nice bonus.
We went to the hotel and the entire ballroom area was booked out. It was pretty massive. Roughly 200 banquet tables? Something like that. The guys did their soundcheck and we just took some seats next to the stage and waited around. They eventually started the night with "Country Roads" and then soon took the stage again for 6-7 songs while everybody was eating. It was a really good set, the sound was great and they looked pretty epic onstage with the great lighting system.
And now, below are the photos that I took and then developed in Adobe Lightroom to my taste. Pretty happy with the results; in fact, I think the photos make their little dinner service background music more elaborate and epic than it really was. Job well done. They treated me to Indian food at Family Curry. It was fantastic but the next day I (and Tim!) had a bit of food poisoning. Damn you Indian food!
Click the photos to see the bigger shots. Also check out my flickr to see more of my best shots
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eric-hevesy/
Also, I'll be posting The Beijing Beatles concert, the models from the Shangrila, the Basement Collective Band, and more Gents from Acapella shots soon!