Clwbing It
On Saturday we went to Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff to watch Supergene. One of the band members who plays guitar works with my wife which is how we came to here of them. It was put to me that I might want to come along and take some photos. Since I knew it would be an interesting experience I brought my D70s along equipped with the 50mm 1.8; I knew I would need this for this kind of lowlight work.
Luckily there was just enough space around the edge of the stage to make shooting there comfortable. I took a few opportunities to go right to the front and try to get some nice shots. Knowing that I was at a disadvantage with my lack of equipment and the problems that the impending use of a high iso would cause I decided to not go for the 'traditional style' shots, basically portraits of each of the band members playing. Instead I decided to go more 'artsy' purposefully cropping out bits that would normally be included to try and direct the viewer away from the faces of the musicians.
The problems I had to tackle in this situation basically all stemmed from the fact that the venue would be dark, this in turn would mean that I would need longer shutter speeds. By boosting the iso I could get a few stops extra to play with but I didn't want to go higher than 800 as the D70 tends to run into serious noise problems at this point. After boosting the iso and opening up the aperture I still found myself needing around 1/10th of a second shutter speed; this is far too slow to freeze movement and even awkward to get sharp photos without camera shake. All of these factors added together, coupled with my lack of experience in this area of photography left me slightly disappointed with my results. The lack of focus and blur from movements, both from the camera and the band members have made for some 'interesting' shots, but nothing that I would be really proud of.
I think that I'll just put this one down to experience and next time I may just resolve myself to getting some really fast film and using my Olympus Om2; something that I would really like to try anyway.
Here are the rest of the photos from the shoot.
Luckily there was just enough space around the edge of the stage to make shooting there comfortable. I took a few opportunities to go right to the front and try to get some nice shots. Knowing that I was at a disadvantage with my lack of equipment and the problems that the impending use of a high iso would cause I decided to not go for the 'traditional style' shots, basically portraits of each of the band members playing. Instead I decided to go more 'artsy' purposefully cropping out bits that would normally be included to try and direct the viewer away from the faces of the musicians.
The problems I had to tackle in this situation basically all stemmed from the fact that the venue would be dark, this in turn would mean that I would need longer shutter speeds. By boosting the iso I could get a few stops extra to play with but I didn't want to go higher than 800 as the D70 tends to run into serious noise problems at this point. After boosting the iso and opening up the aperture I still found myself needing around 1/10th of a second shutter speed; this is far too slow to freeze movement and even awkward to get sharp photos without camera shake. All of these factors added together, coupled with my lack of experience in this area of photography left me slightly disappointed with my results. The lack of focus and blur from movements, both from the camera and the band members have made for some 'interesting' shots, but nothing that I would be really proud of.
I think that I'll just put this one down to experience and next time I may just resolve myself to getting some really fast film and using my Olympus Om2; something that I would really like to try anyway.
Here are the rest of the photos from the shoot.
posted by Rhys at 10:57 AM
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