Archive for May 2006
The Troubadour – the best sound in Brisbane, the nicest owners/bar staff/door bitches, a really great venue all round….BUT the worst lighting. Kinda like one of those black holes that sucks all the light out of the known universe…
Is my new ambition in life to take a decent set of photos there. An improvement from last time when ISO 3200, f1.7 and 1/20th second produced a load of rubbish that couldn’t even be rescued by Noise Ninja and Photoshop (sorry Texas Tea! – I’ll also add to my new life ambition to also get some decent shots of you one of these days…)
A few here and more here.
Flamingo Crash
Diamond Nights
A great night out with Beasts of Bourbon, SixFtHick and Mary Trembles last Saturday at QUT. Since I saw/heard them for the first time at this year’s BDO had been looking forward to the chance to shoot them.
Didn’t get a wristband at the door but was happy enough shooting from the crowd, from behind the lovely 5ft barrier they had in front of the stage. Meant I had a bit of a restricted view and was stuck on one side of the stage though. Probably should have gotten them to give me a wristband so could have done some from the pit, but there’s always next time…
A few pics below and clickity for more photos
Da Hick
Da Beasts
Dusted off my expensive and flash…errr….flash and took it out for a test drive at the Wulvs and Hi-Waves gig at Fat Louie’s a few weeks back. Only the second time that I’ve have tried it out. And it shows. Much more practice needed…
Was trying to do some slow sync stuff but it’s more complicated then it looks. Camera&flash settings, different flash modes, flash power settings, changing the angle of flash….next time will have to remember to take the manual with me…
Some below, the rest on flickr. (with the really bad ones of DD and Ben Salter removed for future blackmail purposes. Bwahahaha)
Wulvs
The Hi-Waves
A bit late-coming with these photos, but had problems uploading them to the website (Gig was back on the 3rd May).
Photos are a bit meh. I’d give them a pretty average 5/10. Always tough doing sold out gigs with no photo pit as I prefer to be a bit back from the stage and although 5 minutes before the band come on you have a great view you still always end up with someone taller than you stood right in front of you.
Did most of the photos from the left-hand side of the stage but didn’t get far when decided to go around to the other side. So the long shots of the drummer and guitarist were done from the pool table. The joys of the f2.8 70-200 1.5x you get with a digital that hasn’t got a full frame sensor. A few below, more here.
Dan Kelly And The Alpha Males
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Augie March
The usual Saturday night trials and tribulations. Gf out with mates, 1 1/2 hours late back, and drunk. So by the time we get to The Zoo have missed Dick Nasty and half of Sixfthick. Worse mosh pit ever. Am just too old for that stuff these days. And it’s even worse when stood there with the two of the three most expensive things I’ve ever bought hanging round my neck…
And to cap it off Cosmic Psychos played in near darkness for most of their set. But still managed a few nice things. A few below and the rest here.
Cosmic Psychos
Sixfthick
