The photography thread

Shot some photos of Helmet the other week here in Canberra. Local band Escape Syndrome played a great set (I was particularly impressed by their drummer!) in support.
The lighting crew at ANU unfortunately seem to be on autopilot these days so the lighting was either flat and boring or very similar to the last set I put up. Ah well, here's a couple of flicks.

1
5896046421_5cff5e455a_b.jpg


2
5896046537_ac99f21a6e_b.jpg


3
5896617344_3488ae281c_b.jpg


4 (shot too many photos of Page Hamilton since the other guys were pretty boring and the drummer was hidden behind huge toms)
5896047319_43763e8ac5_b.jpg


5
5896047233_7231f8e62a_b.jpg


6
5896047481_74b749647c_b.jpg


Here are a couple of street-y type ones I've had sitting around as well:

5803885206_88d5177bc6_b.jpg


5803328131_b8389eb8e6_b.jpg


.. and a skateboarding one for good measure:

5900715318_293c3816ce_b.jpg
 
Need to take more shots with a longer exposure time, really digging your shots brian!
And I got a new lens today-tamron 70-300, gonna do some macros and portraits in the
future with it.

Somebody here who owns a fisheye lens or a fisheye converter?
Heard good things about a converter (forgot the companys name) that's around 130$,
but at the same time, I heard that converteres suck and that you should buy a lens,
but the cheap lenses suck and the "good" ones start around 350$, that's to much for
me, I just want to use it for fun.

ever thought of using an adapter and buying some used old lenses?
 
so, the first two shots with my tripod (actually a few more, but just because I wanted to do some hdrs):
radio.jpg

fucked up old radio from my dad, just took it with me because it looks awesome!

hand.jpg

cheap fucking ugly plastic hand, but my girl uses it as a stand for her mobile.
had to shoot inside because it's raining atm.
 
so, the first two shots with my tripod (actually a few more, but just because I wanted to do some hdrs):
radio.jpg

fucked up old radio from my dad, just took it with me because it looks awesome!

You really need to reshoot this because the colors are awesome but it's blurry. Make sure you use a 2 sec timer or cable release when you're using a tripod so you don't get camera shake induced from pressing the shutter
 
This would have been an awesome shot if i had a decent camera with me:

IMG_20110710_204931e.jpg


There was an awesome sunset in the sky, and the smoke onstage made the whole background look red together with the transparant drumkit.
 
Thank you very much. I captured 6-7 lightnings that evening but that's absolutely the best. I'm very happy because I shooted all the photos with a 10 seconds shoot without a tripod...free hand! :D

Trying to do lighting photos frustrates me so bad... it's all waiting. I shot for 2 hours last night and just got a bunch of lit up clouds.

I did take this yesterday though and I really like it

5930838132_9307e55966_b.jpg
 
Trying to do lighting photos frustrates me so bad... it's all waiting. I shot for 2 hours last night and just got a bunch of lit up clouds.

It was a lucky evening because there was a lightnings storm....at least 1 or 2 in 10 seconds (and more in some cases) so it was "easy"...the 80% of the shots were clouds