You are the subject of the photos I take

[venta]

So, over here in film-camera-world things happen slowly. Actually, what I really mean is over here in not-quite-getting-round-to-it world things happen slowly.

Either way, on 9th June, something exciting happened. I went to a gig and got a given a luridly pink sticker - which said I was allowed to take my camera in. OK, so no one really cared enough to check whether I had a pass or not, but it's the first time I've had one in my own right.

Sadly, it didn't actually make me take better photos. The stage was mostly lit from the back, which made life difficult, and I appear to have lost the ability to focus a lens. However, the Minolta lens which goes all the way down to f1.6 (as lent to me by davefish, hurrah!) did seem to help a little. I've got 11 poor photos, as opposed to the 4 I had last time :)

Punish The Atom, 93 Feet East, 9th June 2006

(Click on thumbnails to see them in big, or go here to see them all in big. Where big is actually quite smallish and low-res, really.)

I apologise for abuse of tables perpetrated in this post. I'm still working out how best to present things like this.

Comments, criticism, tips, etc would be welcome. Especially on cropping of photos, since I couldn't make my mind up about quite a few of those.

Update Whoops, I forgot to link the thumbnails, so clicking on them will do absolutely nothing. And now I'm running out the door to work. The link to the page of big pictures should work, though.

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I like their headphone-wearing face icon.

Pics look unusually colourful. Was this a feature of the gig itself, or is it some cunning photo thing ?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Pics look unusually colourful

I don't know what caused that. There were some coloured lights on the stage, but probably fewer than is usual - so I guess having more white light than normal might make colours come out truer. Other than that, they're taken without flash, which might help a bit.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

You've not done so bad. I quite like them. There seems to have been some decent spreading of light around the stage.

Remember that if you were shooting at f1.6, then you would have had bugger all depth of field to work in.

[(Anonymous)]

Aye, they were actually better than I remembered them being.

Sadly, in the middle of the day today I suddenly realised that the photos I took last night will be crap. I took the 400 ASA film out the camera, I put the 1600 film in... but I didn't move the all-important little dial round. Which explains why it seemed to be reading unexpectedly long exposure times.

Ah well. I'm sure over-exposed will be all the rage next week.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that logging in thing.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Just call it artistic interpretation.