18/02/13
Found myself in the HMV closing down sale in Lisburn's Bow Street Mall this lunchtime. filled a bag of cd's and also found two mugs celebrating two of my favourite albums of all time - this rather splendid one may just become my new office mug for my morning coffee. The other was the Stones' Exile on Main Street, which i have owned copies of since I first heard it. I've owned Exile on vinyl (twice), tape (once) and CD (four times).
19/02/13
I'd picked up a box of little skaters as while back but haven't really got round to doing anything with them. It was a nice bright afternoon today, so I went out into the back yard to see what I could get. I got this shot on the top of the blue recycling bin - Belfast for a bit of context? Now I need someone to paint my skaters in the colours of Belfast Roller Derby (and a couple of zerbras/refs as well).
20/02/13
Half term, so I got to collect the younger two girls early. This then involved a trip to the shops, and as an afterthought we took a wander into the local charity shop where we found this rather excellent Dalek helmet. Fully working, with batteries, one-size-fits-all and for the ridiculous price of £3.49. This is the result of three separate shots layered in Photoshop. I just love it. Another. dafter, shot later in the week.
21/02/03
I read an article on line about using multiple shots to produce large panoramas. This was trial shot number 2 with the ever willing Muffin. Almost 60 shots, with the camera set a 1/125 and f2.8. The first shot was set up on Muffin, then I locked down exposure and focus and took the rest in increasing circles around the start point. Autopano Giga was the software I used to stitch all the shots together, which it seems to do effortlessly and cleanly.
22/02/03
Another Dalek helmet shot. I have absolutely no idea why I decided that this would be a good idea.
23/02/13
My first foray back into concert photography came last night, courtesy of the Warzone Centre and Epic Tour in Belfast. I was asked to go along and cover this (as opposed to my usual blagging and bluffing) and it would be fair to say I was nervous about this. The Warzone is dark - as dark as a dark thing wrapped in a blanket, placed in a light-safe box and buried underground. I had to use flash, but since it was a very small venue I was able to get away with very low power (about 1/32 power) and this also allowed me to use lower shutter speeds to capture the action. This is Kevin, lead singer with French band The Decline! and they were supported by three local punk bands. I enjoyed this; the shots came out well, I got to meet loads of new people and make new contacts and I got to practice a bit of french. The shot above just leapt out at me on the first pass through the shots and seemed to really cry out out for black and white.
24/02/13
The crowd last night was small but energetic. My personal favourite Belfast punk is Barzo (above) who was more than a little tired and emotional last night, courtesy of good old Buckfast. Lovely guy who would never walk past without saying hello and having a chat. The back of his head appears in more than one photo, due to excessive jumping around. I had to take some shots of the crowd and ended up with a dozen of Barzo. This is my own favourite.
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