Madcon is a norwegian band with some international fame. Last weekend they played at Sommerfestivalen in Selbu for the second time. As a rap, hip hop and dance band Madcon are quite out of the ordinary at this festival, in a small village, out in the woods. The festival may be well known for many national and some international rock bands, often bands with songs in the local dialect. But Madcon was a great success in 2011, the audience loved them, and again this year. Madcon just released a new record, CONtact, their first record with songs in norwegian. Next year they will be back with an english record again. Who knows if they will be back in Selbu.
Bente Haarstad Photography 
¡QUÉ FUERTE!!!!!!!!
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Si! A lot of energy there, Mercedes.
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I’ve really been enjoying these photos you’ve been posting from the festival Bente and tonight is no exception, excellent! 🙂
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Glad you liked them, Chillbrook. I know you like landscapes, like me, but this is somethin different.
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Beautiful photographs… I loved them all dear Bente, Thanks and Love nia
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Thanks a lot for your comment, dear Nia.
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Great shots!
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Thanks Anneli.
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Especially like the audience shot.
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Yes, I like to show the effect of the music on the audience, Gunta.
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Powerful shots!
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Thanks a lot, Cybermum.
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Really enjoying your festival series. Do you mind me asking what sort of lens and settings you’re using for your onstage images? You have amazing focus and clarity in them – and I know how challenging that stage lighting can be. Are you using fill flash?
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I was not using any flash, Finesse. I rarely do. And I find the effect of creative stage lighting interesting, even when it colours the audience standing next to the scene. Thats part of the picture, of the event. I used only one camera and one lens this time. Canon eos mark II with a 24-105 mm lens. And contrary to most times I used it on autumatic, most of the time. Normally I use manual mode, but this time the light was changing all the time, so little time to adjust, and I think it worked ok. These red ones are shot at 1/80 sec, iso 200. If I was going to decide I probably would have gode for much faster speed, and more iso…., to be sure. I often use two lenses, a 75-300 in additon for close ups. But didn’t want that much clos ups this time. Most of the time I was quite close to the scene.
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Amazing pictures!
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Thanks a lot. You got quite amazing pictureas, and stories, too, Brightlife.
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Wow, it’s Saturday night fever !! 😀
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Yes, Marion, saturday night fever, at last!
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Who’s a pretty boy then! Great images, you obviously had a great weekend
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Great weekend, but mostly behind the camera. I agree about the pretty boy, David,pretty boy who knows how to dance.
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The bare-chested frontman certainly knows how to pose, and hence get the message across (I’m with David Oakes….LOL)! Great pix, bente!
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Had to google D. Oakes, Artsy. Yes, this one knows to pose. It might be a strategy, but it felt natural; part of the music and dancing. There is a big discussion in Norway these days, about young, female musicians. That they have to pose halv naked and look a certain way to get media attention and to sell. Yes, I think so too, and it is not a good thing. It is all over the music industry and it has bad influence on the very young. I think I don’t make any difference about men and women in this way, but if you analyse these female singers the all look “come-and-get-me, I am all yours”, and it kind of look stupid. Thats something different than the energy and expression in this pictures I believe.
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Love these, Bente! So much energy and I love the perspective.
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Thanks. Yes, it is musicians with energy.
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¡iImpresionantes tomas!
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Muchas gracias, Manoli.
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All your recent posts have been HANDS DOWN some of the best concert pictures I’ve seen! I love all the joy and postive vibes youre capturing – so much fun! Thanks for sharing!
Peace (:
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I pushed the like botton, but these need a love button for sure!!
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Oh, Angela, thanks a lot for your great comments. Glad you liked them. 🙂
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Nice and I love the second one. Great picture!!
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Thanks, Yvonne.
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How close are you? It looks like you have a stage pass to get those shots.
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Very close, Karen, with a stage pass. Not that many from the press on this festival, even if it is quite a big one in Norway. The press people don’t easily leave the cities to go to a small place to a festival loved by what they believe are the ordinary people.
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And so they really miss out. I remember watching some documentary on a photographer who took photos of bands from the time they started.
It was, I believe, Jimmy Hendrix that he had some of the first photos of. Now what if he had been a snob like some of those journalist? Your smart, you just never know what photo will go viral.
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These make a bit of a departure from reindeer and the frozen north! Great performance shots, Bente.
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Needs some variety in life, Wanderlust. And energy to chase away the frozen expreriences.
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It sure does, Bente, and I’m so interested to catch a glimpse of the other things that spark you:)
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Looks like you have been having fun!
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The ones not photographing probably had more fun, Karen. But yes, had some fun too.
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Great shots Bente – I really enjoyed them.
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Thanks, Victoria, glad you liked them
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WAUW I like very much from 1 till 4 !!!!
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Thanks a lot, Mijnnikonenik, dank u.
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Bente, where do you get all your energy??? Neat stuff.
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It is not me up there, Dave. I was in the recieving end. But of course, it takes some energy to edit or discard hundreds of photos.
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Really exciting photos. 😉
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