Scenes from Rock & Wrestling at Bottom Lounge. February 19, 2010. Chicago. I chose to shoot this event for The Chicago Reader for two reasons. 1) there was wrestling involved, which sounded interesting and photogenic and 2) Cougars were playing and I’m a fan of theirs. In those regards, the show was great and I got some nice images out of it. Unfortunately, there was next to nobody there so any chance of getting a nice balanced set of photos for print in The Reader was impossible. So it goes.
As far as the wrestling photos go: I set up a strobe off to one side of the ring and used that, along with some very hit or miss spotlights they were using, as my light source. The last few shots might’ve also been aided by an additional hand held flash. I forget. It was a fun experience and I’d love to shoot more wrestling-like events in the future.
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