I went to Cafe Colonial last night to see Goatcorpse, Slege, Abhorrency, and Demoncy! I decided to use my camera a bit differently since I have been feeling a little more mindful about my flash. The venue is much too dark for me to go without my flash, but I can take advantage of certain situations and I have also been experimenting with having the flash on at a low setting.
The lighting was low, like usual, but Goatcorpse and Slege had candles, and there was also a smoke machine being used for all the bands, so that helped with lighting a little bit. I got a little lucky if a musician was standing under one of the lights. I had my ISO up to 6400, which is the highest it goes. The images are grainy at that setting, but I can get away with that when photographing black metal aesthetic. A lot of the pictures with no flash turned out too dark, but some of them where salvaged with some editing.
I have been using the flash on a lower setting lately and editing if need be. I have also been revisiting an older technique that I used to experiment with years ago and had ditched for a while, which is slowing my shutter speed. I used to take pictures like that a lot years ago. Once in a while, I’d get a few really neat pictures by doing that. The pictures started looking like they were taken through drunk goggles the rest of the time, and I decided to stop doing that. I’ve been doing it again at the last few shows, but I don’t do it the whole time.
Anyways, here are some examples of photos I took doing one of the aforementioned techniques. Two photos of each band. In general, I think the photos turned out okay! I was feeling concerned when I was taking the pictures, hoping I would get some good ones. All of the pictures I took are here. I hope you all enjoy them.
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