Freelensing Concert Photography
Some time in 2016, I stumbled over the word „Freelensing“ and thought, „that’s interesting!“. Basically, you take your lens off the camera body and hold it freely in front of the sensor opening, varying distance and angle while pressing the shutter.
Technically, this is a tilt/shift effect on steroids. By angling the lens away from the plane of the sensor, you also angle the focus plane, so you can have things in vastly different distances in focus at the same time, while completely blurring out everything else. Light bleeding into the gap between the lens and the camera body is a feature, not a problem. The effect varies between being disturbing, feeling dreamy and a visualization of being under influence.
I was absolutely sure, that this kind of images were perfect to let the viewer feel the sometimes surreal, overwhelming sensation on concerts, so I gave it a try.
I cannot stop doing that anymore…
Chelsea Wolfe
Real War
Chelsea Wolfe
Culk @ Merlin Stuttgart
Elektrokowski
Galmet @ Kellerklub Stuttgart
The Ghost Wolves
Magnetfeld
Amanda Palmer und Edward Ka-Spel
Chelsea Wolfe
Amanda Palmer und Edward Ka-Spel
Emma Ruth-Rundle
Converge
The Joy Formidable - Freelensed
Esben and the Witch
Sharon van Etten - Freelensed
Cannibal Girls
Sharon van Etten - Freelensed
Esben and the Witch
Amenra @ Juha Hallschlag
FVNERALS
Amanda Palmer und Edward Ka-Spel
Cannibal Girls
Myfearone
Amanda Palmer in Berlin
Hope
Culk @ Merlin Stuttgart
Culk @ Merlin Stuttgart
Romie
The Joy Formidable - Freelensed
Converge
Eva Winter Band
Milliarden
Amenra @ Juha Hallschlag
Safi
Wear Your Wounds
Amanda Palmer und Edward Ka-Spel
Lingua Ignota @ Bad Bonn
Hope @ Hudson Bar
Maida Vale
Safi
Destruct, supporting Gewalt
Plastikstrom
Myfearone
The Snouts
Gorguts
Laura Carbone @ Backstage Club
Milliarden - Freelensing
Lingua Ignota @ Bad Bonn
Akua Naru
Amanda Palmer in Köln - Whittney Moses
Milliarden - Freelensing
Safi
Lingua Ignota
Amenra @ Juha Hallschlag
Lingua Ignota @ Bad Bonn
Amenra @ Juha Hallschlag
Gabby Young & Other Animals
Gewalt
Doll Skin
The Joy Formidable @ Blue Shell Köln
Wear Your Wounds
Noga Erez
Cannibal Girls
Lingua Ignota
The Snouts
Lingua Ignota
Doll Skin
Maida Vale
Verena von Horsten
Culk @ Merlin Stuttgart
The Snouts
Laura Carbone @ Backstage Club
Kawehi
Maida Vale
Cannibal Girls
Safi
The Snouts
Cannibal Girls
Akua Naru
Kawehi
Esben and the Witch
FVNERALS
Amanda Palmer in Köln
Esben and the Witch
Lingua Ignota @ Bad Bonn
Maida Vale
Marissa Nadler @ Eclat Schorndorf
Galmet @ Kellerklub Stuttgart
The Joy Formidable @ Blue Shell Köln
Noga Erez
Myfearone
Nikki Hill & The Pirate Crew
Verena von Horsten
Jonathan Kluth
Flüstertüte
Wear Your Wounds
Manufactura Musica
Hope
Laura Carbone @ Backstage Club
Gewalt
Culk @ Merlin Stuttgart
Destrukt, supporting Gewalt
Schmidt & Rathmann
Maid of Ace - Freelensing
Cannibal Girls
Akua Naru
Nikki Hill & The Pirate Crew
The Snouts
Safi
Bridear
Amanda Palmer in Köln
Chelsea Wolfe
Sookee
Lingua Ignota @ Bad Bonn
Get Into Gear
Gewalt
Lucy Kruger @ Backstage München
Galmet @ Kellerklub Stuttgart
Converge - Inhale - Explode
Eva Winter Band
Soldat Hans
Cannibal Girls
Galmet @ Kellerklub Stuttgart
Matador
Milliarden
Lingua Ignota @ Bad Bonn
Emma Ruth-Rundle
Eva Winter Band
Galmet @ Kellerklub Stuttgart
Noga Erez
Lingua Ignota @ Bad Bonn
Hope
Sharon van Etten - Freelensed
Emma Ruth-Rundle
Hope @ Hudson Bar
Akua Naru
FVNERALS
Emma Ruth-Rundle
Gewalt
Gorguts
Gewalt
Magnetfeld
The Snouts
Maida Vale
Real War
Emma Ruth-Rundle
Emma Ruth-Rundle
Cannibal Girls
Get Into Gear
Doll Skin
Amenra @ Juha Hallschlag
Esben and the Witch
Gewalt
Destrukt, supporting Gewalt
Maida Vale
Honeymoon Lecter - Irgendwas mit Kunst
Galmet @ Kellerklub Stuttgart
Maid of Ace - Freelensing
Revocation
Gewalt
Havok
Amanda Palmer in Berlin
Nikki Hill & The Pirate Crew
Lingua Ignota @ Bad Bonn
The Snouts
Milliarden - Freelensing
Get Into Gear - Embrace Your Inner Demon
Verena von Horsten
The Ghost Wolves
The Joy Formidable - Freelensing
Maid of Ace - Freelensing
Manufactura Musica
Plastikstrom
Destrukt, supporting Gewalt
Milliarden
Manufactura Musica
Myfearone
Noga Erez
Laura Carbone @ Backstage Club
Noga Erez
The Joy Formidable - Freelensed
O @ Düsterfest Winterthur
Milliarden
License
Magmasphere
Akua Naru
Amenra @ Juha Hallschlag
Nikki Hill & The Pirate Crew
Amenra @ Juha Hallschlag
Cannibal Girls
Culk @ Merlin Stuttgart
Laura Carbone @ Backstage Club
Milliarden - Freelensing
Myfearone
Chelsea Wolfe
Emma Ruth-Rundle
Safi
Romie
Roodloft
Emma Ruth-Rundle
Amanda Palmer in Berlin
The Ghost Wolves - Aaoooooo!
Doll Skin
The Joy Formidable - Freelensing
Gabby Young & Other Animals