kimprobable
Instruction_blueartie
TECHNIQUE GROUP: please scroll to the second paragraph for my question.. sorry for the blog post, i'm posting this after-the-fact.. thanks!
one of my bestest friends came into town this weekend with his band, Instruction. it was great on so many levels. i miss my dear joe, but i also got to see a cross section of America i would never otherwise encounter. well, i don't know if it's "great" per se, but for several hours, i comingled with some of the biggest meat heads imaginable. now this is all strange to me, because since the early teen years i've been in a small spin-off the punk rock/indie scene. and so was joe.. but now suddenly he's in this band that's touring with KORN and they're on these ginormous stages with blue lights and SMOKE machines. it's something to make fun of. now.. i'm sorry if any of you rock out to the likes of puddle of mud and likin park and take offense to this.. but goddamn i feel i may have lost a few IQ points at this show last night.
anyway, it was still pretty fun and i got to try to take pics of bands on stage; and fail. it took me 80% of their set to realize a regular flash won't cut it (bye-bye pretty blue colors and smoke effects) , and i finally settled on an ISO of 400 and speed of 1/60 so that I didn't need the flash.. but at 400 the pics turned out super grainy. anyone have any experience with shotting bands that can give me some pointers? maybe if i had a better camera with a faster lens? (i say that sounding like i know what i'm talking about.. but i only sorta do).
Instruction_blueartie
TECHNIQUE GROUP: please scroll to the second paragraph for my question.. sorry for the blog post, i'm posting this after-the-fact.. thanks!
one of my bestest friends came into town this weekend with his band, Instruction. it was great on so many levels. i miss my dear joe, but i also got to see a cross section of America i would never otherwise encounter. well, i don't know if it's "great" per se, but for several hours, i comingled with some of the biggest meat heads imaginable. now this is all strange to me, because since the early teen years i've been in a small spin-off the punk rock/indie scene. and so was joe.. but now suddenly he's in this band that's touring with KORN and they're on these ginormous stages with blue lights and SMOKE machines. it's something to make fun of. now.. i'm sorry if any of you rock out to the likes of puddle of mud and likin park and take offense to this.. but goddamn i feel i may have lost a few IQ points at this show last night.
anyway, it was still pretty fun and i got to try to take pics of bands on stage; and fail. it took me 80% of their set to realize a regular flash won't cut it (bye-bye pretty blue colors and smoke effects) , and i finally settled on an ISO of 400 and speed of 1/60 so that I didn't need the flash.. but at 400 the pics turned out super grainy. anyone have any experience with shotting bands that can give me some pointers? maybe if i had a better camera with a faster lens? (i say that sounding like i know what i'm talking about.. but i only sorta do).