DMN Newswire--2010-12-9--A frenzied crowd of young country music fans explodes in cheers and applause as singer Gary Allan strides onstage at Chicago?s House of Blues. Crisp, film-like close-ups of Allan and his band are intercut with tight shots of the joyous faces in the audience as the singer acknowledges their enthusiasm and the first chords of one of Allan?s million-selling hits begins. This dramatic you-are-there footage captures the excitement of a leading country artist?s thrilling concert, and all of it was captured in vivid HD using Canon EOS 5D Mark II and 7D digital SLR cameras.

?Gary Allan: Live at the House of Blues is a concert special on the Great American Country cable network,? said Rhet Bear, director of photography on the project. ?These kinds of shows are usually produced using traditional truck packages, big mobile production units that deploy more than half a dozen big HD cameras, a crane, lots of lights, and a large crew. This time around, however, the show?s director, Stephen Shepherd from Tailight (a Nashville-based production company), had the idea of shooting the concert with Canon HD DSLRs. Stephen didn?t want to do a traditional-style live show. He wanted something that had a lot more energy and a lot more frenetic action to it. The Canon DSLRs made this possible. They?re small and aren?t tethered to cables, so they can get up-close and into places that larger cameras can?t.?