fantastic photography

sweet shots indeed. Also, I realise people spell it wrong all the time but I'm pretty sure it's just Peewee, not 2 words.

This was the first gig Matt had taken photos of, he smashed it! yeah boiii

Watch out Carbie, Matt has done an amazing job.

more diversity in gig photography is a very good thing. that said, i'll be watching my back :)

photo 20 is tops!

not 21?

Great work, Matt!

is grover in my room or my screen?

Matt took some good pics... but they do not even come close to the quality of Carbies (in my opinion)... So Ralf... no need for Carbie to 'watch out' =)

Carbie is still the best 'gig' photographer in the world ever. (Just a great first effort by Matt.)

two different styles of photography, both with their own merits. i welcome another available light photographer onto the scene, to keep the rest of us on our toes. onward and upward, mr harding!

If you keep going to shows every night and keep taking photo after photo and can whittle down 500+ pics to 20-40 you're bound to get some good ones. Like shooting anything constantly you keep improving time after time and get used to the limitations of shooting gigs (e.g .crap lighting - i mean sheesh a wash of red at the back hardly allows for any sharp images despite high ISOs, fighting fans in the pit going apeshit that could damage your gear, now you can't bring cameras to a lot of pubs when 5 years ago you could, etc)

Not to diminish Carbie's fine work, but there are lots of excellent gig photographers out there in Oz. The Sydney set of Daniel Boud, Matt Boey, Cybele Malinowski, Danny North etc are awesome. There is also Todd Uwong in the states. Let's not forget Tony Mott. Each bring their own perspective to what is a hard thing to do and each have validity as being one of the ''best gig photographer''.

well said nexus. hooray for diversity!

Brad Marsellos ftw!

My flash is stuffing up half the time so I don't use it these days. I would have gone to this gig if I hadn't already booked a ticket for Kyu on the same night.

I don't really get to see many other people's photos these days. I am getting frustrated with the people with giant camera rigs who flash-blind me when I'm sitting in the dark (the stage lights are enough.)

this guy didn't use any flash. I've also cut back on it, but still really like using it at times. Pretty sure this argument has been done and dusted on here already though.

TimChuma - actually stage lights are terrible to shoot with, especially the new LED lights. Coupled with that most pub shows don't do much more with their lights then turn them on half dim and usually they with the red filter which plays havoc with the red channel in a camera sensor and ups the noise factor. IF they do have someone doing lights they flash them way too fast that you can barely focus on the subject who is also moving around onstage.

I was trying to shoot on Fri night at the curtin and it was a real shit with the LEDs, practically no light for hte drummer and no front light for the two guitarists/singer and bassist. I don't like to use a flash either because it's distracting for a performer but sometimes I will pull it out for abit of fill so i can shoot at a decent shutter speed and aperture setting (f2.8 still means most of the image is blurry as fuck with only a tiny part of the image sharp)