Tin Cat at Blue Rock Shoot

[xythian]

A hastily assembled shot of Tin Cat playing at Blue Rock Shoot tonight. I stuck 4 50mm shots together in photoshop and cropped it. The "hasty" bit was the lack of work to smooth out transitions or do anything about the abrupt changes where they where moving between frames. I started to make it look like a single wide angle shot but I actually kind of like the slammed together version -- like an overlapped multiple exposure.

I need to go through my photos a bit later to pick a single shot or two to post, but I wanted to post something now.

I was mostly there to listen, so while I had the camera out I just shot what I could see from my seat and didn't watch the entire show through the camera like I have in the past. Of course, when I get home and see what I shot, I find myself wishing I had been taking the photography a little more seriously...

The guy organizing music at Blue Rock Shoot asked me to send him a few good shots if I got any. He also asked the other guy that was shooting photos with a DSLR (and maybe more, but I only saw one). A few folks had little point and shoot digicams, too. It might be the most documented Tin Cat show ever.

I tried a little experiment with these shots. I shut off the post-shot review -- so it was much like using a film SLR in that I wasn't reviewing at all while I was shooting. The idea was to get used to looking for the next shot while shooting rather than trying to figure out if the photo I just took worked . When shooting a live event, the photos in the past are gone whether I captured it correctly then or not. It was sort of liberating (but I'll still turn review back on when I go out shooting again). Generally speaking I captured what I thought I captured -- a few frames had more dynamic range than I could actually handle which I would've noticed if I had been reviewing. I did find myself wishing I had a wider lens but I don't know that it would've actually helped me get more good shots or just different crap shots.

Oh yeah, and the music was good. I wish they'd record some of the new songs somewhere.

Comments

Dammit

[artname.livejournal.com]

I knew there was something I was supposed to do last night. I mean, aside from seeing a play I had tickets for.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Nice photo. I hadn't realized, when we set up, that I would appear to be ignoring the rest of the band, or possibly not actually in the band but just some guy trying to repair an unidentified machine.

Someone else sent me a link to photos, but it looks like they'll take twelve hours to download, and I don't have twelve contiguous hours of notes. Anyway, it might be the other DSLR guy. Or not.

[xythian.livejournal.com]

There are some shots where you appear to be in the band, too. Twelve hours of notes?

That corner was so dark compared to the lit stage.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Twelve hours of net, sorry.

Yeah, I noticed the dimness of the corner when we were setting up, but really, where are you gonna put five musicians? Especially given the piano.