About Touched By Fire Photography:
Touched By Fire is a collection of work by artist Jane Bush consisting
of live concert photography, artistic creations, and other photography work. Jane has
been creating art since she was young enough to draw and paint, and ventured off into
other mediums as her education and experience grew. She is experienced in illustration
mediums such as drawing, portraiture work, fine art painting and digital art painting.
She has always been a music lover and had a growing passion for live photography,
venturing out to photograph gigs in early 2009. She quickly went from photographing local
bands to national acts, and has had her work published for such sites as buzznet.com and
notesfromthepit.com. She has photographed such artists as The Academy Is.., The Yeah Yeah Yeah's,
Peaches, Taking Back Sunday, and many more. She looks forward to photographing more live
acts in the new decade as well as continuing to create more artwork in the future years.
The fabulous, glamtacular Adam Lambert was in St. Louis at The Pageant for his Glam Nation 2010 tour, and my 70-200mm was there to capture all the glam action! Be sure to attend the show when he’s in your town. You won’t want to miss it! Here are a few photo highlights. You can view the rest of the set of photos here.
Alex Gaskarth fronting the sold out All Time Low show in St. Louis
Baltimore natives All Time Low put their heart into a sold out show in St. Louis on November 21st at The Pageant with We The Kings, Hey Monday, and The Friday Night Boys to support them on their Glamour Kills tour. Frontman Alex Gaskarth led the way to a fun filled night complete with devout fans flinging their panties onstage. I wasn’t exactly thrilled that the panties actually hit my head before landing onstage, but alas, these are the perils of concert photography. On the bright side, they put on a great show and less face it, much worse could’ve happened!
Plenty of colorful backlighting and the occasional front lights made for a few good shots as I switched between my prime 50mm f/1.8 and 24-70mm f/2.8. I mostly shot the photos between 1/45 and 1/90 or 1/125, but I was surprised most of the good shots at 1/60 didn’t need much post production at all. Here are a few of the shots from last Saturday’s show. The rest are here on buzznet.
Miss Cassadee Pope of Hey Monday
Live @ The Pageant, St. Louis
11/21/09
These 2 shots happened within just a few seconds of each other towards the end of the 3rd song and up until that point, the lighting had been well-less than ideal for shooting. Pretty dark, actually. This was taken w/my 24-70mm f/2.8 at 1/60 on manual. Unfortunately this diptych of 2 shots were the only ones I felt were suitable for posting.
However, concert photographer Todd Owyoung and I shoot the same shows occasionally and I always think it’s pretty interesting when we capture the same moment at the same show but from 2 different photographer’s perspectives. He was front and center for this shot and you can check it out here. Very cool!
[edit]: I also have a link to Dave Mullis’ version of this moment from another perspective which is very cool! So make that 3 different perspectives!
Photo is © 2009 Artist Jane Bush and buzznet.com. Reproduction, reposting, and stealing are completely prohibited.
Karen O. in her usual show stopping stage presence in St. Louis
The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s brought the house down Tuesday, June 2nd at the Pageant in St. Louis with their incredible stage presence and unique rock sound. While the lighting was tough at times, it was never dull. I was constantly captivated by frontwoman Karen O., who came out in a unique robe and black light face paint. Ripping through everything from their latest Zero (in which she came out in her leather KO jacket) to an encore that consisted of Maps, the entire set was power packed and never dissapointed. The energy exchanged between the band and the crowd was infectious, and 24-70mm did justice to their vividly colorful set. Special thanks to Karen. These exclusive photos will be featured on Buzznet tomorrow, and you can take a look at the entire set of them here.
