Soaking up the summer weather, binging on poutine from food trucks, watching the Toronto sunset from atop a ferris wheel, all with the company of renowned musicians Kaytranada, Bleachers, Heartstreets, and Franklin Electric (just to name a few) - there's really no better way to spend a weekend in the big city! Here's a look at what went down at NXNE Port Lands through our lens: Heartstreets girls brought the heat on stage! K.I.D.'s infectious energy hyping up the crowd Never a dull moment when MUNA is performing Highly anticipated headliner, Bleachers, didn't disappoint! Tinie Tempah: golden hour, golden outfit, golden performance✨ The Franklin Electric was TOTALLY swoon-worthy Yukon Blonde had the entire audience grooving Soul Rebels spicing things up with groovy tunes Lizzo showing the crowd what it means to WORK IT Passion Pit closing the festival off with a bang
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The heat is on this week as NXNE kicks off its annual festival from June 16-25. We are extremely excited to be announcing that we will be covering Portlands leg of the festival from June 23-25! NXNE has expanded it’s all ages Port Lands music festival from two days to three, Friday, June 23 to Sunday, June 25. Thirty acts representing the best in indie rock, hip hop, soul and more fill the lakeside site and headliners include: Post Malone, Kaytranada, Passion Pit plus other great artists. Tickets are still available through the NXNE website for Weekend GA, Weekend VIP, Single Day GA, and Single Day VIP. With full days of music, rides, carnival games and more, it's an event you don't want to miss. Kick off your summer with us! More information about NXNE can me found on their website or social links here:
Twitter: @NXNE Instagram: @NXNE Hashtag: #PortLands "Founded in 2007, the award-winning Manifesto Festival of Community & Culture is one of Canada’s biggest celebrations of hip hop culture and beyond – a multi-disciplinary, world-class festival with a positive social and economic impact." - Manifesto Toronto has always been known for it's thriving arts and culture, predominantly in the hip hop industry with the rise of world renowned local superstars, Drake and The Weeknd. Thousands of fans of all ages gathered at sunny Echo Beach on June 10th vibing and grooving to Isaiah Rashad, The Internet, Sean Leon, just to name a few. To put the cherry on top, just as everyone thought headliner Majid Jordan's performance couldn't get any better, the duo surprised the crowd by bringing on fellow OVO artists Roy Woods and DVSN. Nonetheless, it was amazing night for hip hop fans new and old. Here are the snippets of the excitement we were able to catch: Come join us at RBC Echo Beach this Saturday as we cover the #MANIFESTO11 festival featuring local Toronto talent such as Majid Jordan, Jidenna, The Internet and Isaiah Rashad. As a milestone year with the programming model changing, this is an event you especially don't want to miss. Get your tickets before it's too late!
More information: Twitter: @Manifesto_TO Instagram: @Manifesto_TO Hashtag: #Manifesto11 Free shows, pit access, getting up close and personal with your favourite artists, what's there not to love about concert photography? Getting into the field may seem intimidating at first, but the key is to get started. Here are 5 tips that we've learned along our journey that will help kick start your career. 1. Have work samplesMy first encounter with live music photography started from humble beginnings (read more about it here). Whether you are searching after an artistic role, or any role in that matter, you need samples of your work to show that you can provide value to the organization. After a slur of rejections from cold emailing, I decided that in order to land a gig I needed to prove to whom I was contacting that I know my stuff. So how do you show your work when you don't work to do? I started off photographing live events at a local pub. It wasn't a sold out arena show but it was a starting point where I could practice my skills of capturing emotion and excitement in a low light environment. I was then able to use these samples for my "portfolio" to send out. 2. Getting the passBefore you can step into a venue with a DSLR around your neck, you're going to need permission to do so. Concert promotors are usually reluctant to give you photo pass unless you're associated with a publication or on a photo assignment. Instead, I approached managers of small bands/musicians and offered to send in my photos for free in return for permission to photograph the show. The more shows you shoot the more you meet like minded people and eventually build up your network of concert promoters, publicists and other photographers. 3. EquipmentGetting the right lighting is the starting foundation of all good photos, but dark venues with tricky strobes makes it difficult to capture the perfect photo. Although I argue time and time again that it's not the equipment that makes a photographer, in this case you do want to find a lens with a low aperture in order to be as sensitive to light as possible. My personal favourites are the Canon 50mm f/1.4 and Tamron SP 70mm-200mm f/2.8. Ideally, anything under 4.0 should be sufficient to get you started. 4. SettingsFirst things first, make sure you shoot in raw!!! I've photographed artists where I shot on one setting for the entire show, and I've photographed other artists where I was constantly changing my ISO, aperture and shutter speed because of the changing lighting and effects. Your best bet is to take the leap towards shooting on manual so you can be ready for unexpected changes. Although cranking your ISO and getting a grainier image is forgivable for live music photography, a general rule of thumb is that it is better to underexpose your photos than to overexpose them. The reasoning is that it's harder to recover details in an overexposed photo where the highlights are blown out than to bring up the exposure and keep most of the detailing when your photo is underexposed. 5. Post ProductionYou can never know what kind of lighting/special effects will be present going into a show. I like to keep my concert photos as candid as possible by keeping editing to a minimum, only fixing up the colouring, lighting and clarity. Generally, I like to correct skin tones using the HSL sliders in Lightroom and spend most of my time trying to recover the details by playing with the highlights and shadows. If all else fails, don't be afraid to black and white your photo! Not only does it give a timeless effect but it's a shortcut to solving most of your colouring problems. See more of our concert photos here
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