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World Magnetic Tour – 2009

Yeah, I’ve been to Vienna to see them live, before they decide they are too old for that kind of stuff . It all started kinda fluffy, i totally forgot to ask for vacation… In the end, me and my girlfriend had to drive to Vienna by car even tho our tickets included a bus ride there and back. Well, i sure wont forget to do it earlier next time .

We arrived in Vienna at around 18:00, well… we were in Vienna at 17:00, but the last 4km drive to “Wiener Stadthalle” took a goddamn HOUR! Luckily, we found a parking space straight away. I tell you, Vienna traffic SUCKS! We waited for another 30mins before we could enter the stage area, so we decided to go out for a show walk, which was swiftly canceled due to rain.

Once we got in, first off – GRAB A BEER time , some Austrian light thing tbh, wasn’t that bad, but not even close to what i usually drink. That sorted, we started to check out the area, deciding where we’ll be during the concert, not long after, the first *pre* band were on the stage. I think the name was “SWARD”, they didn’t convince me, tbh, they sucked. As people slowly started to fill up the place and after another beer, my girlfriend became all *jumpy* and wanted to dig into the crowd close to the stage. Oh well, i have to say, i wasn’t really looking forward to it, but i gave in. In the mean time, the other *pre* band was on the stage, sadly, i forgot the name of them, they were WAY better then the Sword guys tho…

And then, it was time, for the main act: Metallica

I lifted my girlfriend on my shoulders, gave her the camera and told her to SHOOT away . Well, somehow in all that *sizzle* command dial went from M to Tv, and this is what came out:

Still pretty OK, I’d say, regarding everything and how it happened . Anyways, after that, i took over the shooting. Since i left my D80 at home, i have to say, I’m pretty pleased with the little Canon i had with me. Still, it’s damn hard to get anything useful from it – the light conditions are all but super, high ISO on compacts isn’t all that great and getting a clean shot while like 434098394 people are bumping into you  all the time it isn’t all that great either .

Well, here’s what i would like to think of useful shot, had to do a bit of post processing, the noise is still visible but it’s not distracting – IMO.

When the concert slowly started to get to the end, i decided to try a few “higher ground” shots, problem was, you could only get on the higher up floors if you had the right ticket. Well somehow we managed to get up there, just for a few shots:

Hun’ thank you so much for such a great time!

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