Sitting in the bar waiting for the band to go on stage, I felt that hint of nervous anticipation I'd felt before when I used to play in a band myself. I reckon life would be pretty boring if you didn't get nervous once in a while.
So gig night has been and gone, and I took around 300 images. From those I have about 20 or thirty that I think are worthy of being seen, and I have ten that I'm happy enough to put up here.
The biggest problem I had was that when all the normal lights were turned off the place was plunged into (well for a camera anyway) darkness. The 50mm lens was a lifesaver, because if I had have landed with my kit lens, the night would have been over before anyone even took to the stage. For a bit of fun I tried the kit lens at its widest 18mm, but still there wasn't enough light to work with.
Besides all that, here are some of the images I came away with that night. I ended up converting most of them to black and white because of the image noise from shooting at 1600 ISO, but there were a few that just looked far better with a touch of colour.
So thanks to You Say Tiger for letting me shoot their first Auntie Annie's gig.
Josh, this is great work for your first gig you've really captured the evening well, the B&W works much better, keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteP.S hope your still keeping up with the "street" work :-)
yeah mate, I haven't been out on the streets for a few weeks now, what with work and getting a bit of practice in the low light. but I'll get back to it soon!
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