Fast Forward Tour

A new decade, almost a month old - time to get back in shape! *cracking my knuckles* Plans for the next ten years include to get myself a wider angle lens and an 2nd Nikon camera (after successfully selling all my Canon stuff to pay for a well-deserved and totally awesome vacation in Japan in December).

Goodbye Fairbanks play a live rock concert at Schüür Lucerne

To figure out what kind of glass and clicky thingy to get, I borrowed my friend Bruce's D700 with the 17-35mm f/2.8. I'd already figured out on said trip to the east that Bruce likes his settings a bit different - he's the kind of person that sets the autofocus to the A/F button and gets the white balance right when he shoots (so it's set to JPG). I was ready for that.

Fuzzy Index performing at Schüür Lucerne

But I must say, it does take some getting used to when you got a camera in your hands that you haven't played much with. Compared to the D700, my old Canon 20D is far inferior, but it felt better in my hands 'cause I'm used to it.

Goodbye Fairbanks during their concert in Lucerne, Switzerland

The lens gives you awesomely distorted wide-angle (as you'd expect at 17mm), but that was almost too wide for Schüür's stage. I'm tempted to say I wanna buy a 2nd D3 with the 35-70mm f/2.8, but I can hear my bank account screaming just thinking of it. Anyone got 8000 Swiss to spare?

Goodbye Fairbanks playing a rock concert

PS: The bands were awesome!!!

Give It A Name: Goodbye Fairbanks

Thanks to my friends at Leech*Redda, I had the opportunity to shoot at Give It A Name Switzerland festival. The bill promised a long and crazy night with lots of good music, and in my opinion we weren't let down at all.

Goodbye Fairbanks from Berne perform live at Give It A Name festival

The sound rocked, you should check out the bands if you don't know them! Too bad that moshing and headbanging is a bad idea if you carry a lot of expensive camera stuff, but I was with the crowd in my mind ;-) .

There were so many beautiful people - though I admit to shooting mostly the ones on-stage, if only because they were better lit.

Goodbye Fairbanks' live show at Volkshaus Zurich

The honor of opening the evening was given to Goodbye Fairbanks, a band from Berne that I'd met what feels like in a previous life when I just started out shooting. Great to see that they get some exposure!

Goodbye Fairbanks perform live in Zurich at Volkshaus

There were six bands in total, and as mentioned, everybody war really good-looking, so I have way too many photos for just one post. Goodbye Fairbanks played first, so they get to get the first post. 5 more to come!