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Shura @ Archway

Electric Pig — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:52:56 +0000

I went to one of my lil'sister's gigs this week, somewhere in Archway, deepest, darkest Norf London. Shu plays guitar and sampler and sings her own songs, accompanied by a boy with the curliest hair since Keegan's 70's mop (been watching too much World Cup recently). She can be found on the web here and here. The gig was good, Shu sung well and was well received I thought, with just some work needing doing on the time she takes with initial looping. I must add that the guy who started off the night, whose name I believe was Craig Ingham, had some of the best patter between songs I have ever heard. Much better than the usual thanks and introduction to the band that we got when I was young...

I wanted to try to take some photos at the gig, partly for Shu's prospective website, and partly just for photo practice. It turned out to be quite a good venue for photos, as I had a decent sized seat and a little table in front to hold my bag. I found I could just about get away with a couple of shots at 200ISO, but most of the shots are at 400 or 800 ISO. I had better focus with the 50mm at f1.8 than I had had last time I had tried to shoot any shots of one of her gigs, with slightly less blur, but it still wasn't great. I took far more shots this time though, so there was bound to be some degree of sheer quantity of shots yielding slightly more good ones. There wasn't really room to move around when the music had actually started though, hence the similar angle for most of them. Sorry about that. There's some more below. Click to see them bigger.

Texture

Electric Pig — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:52:41 +0000

Stationeri

Electric Pig — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:44:55 +0000

[See post to watch QuickTime movie]

This is a little experiment me and Eri did while I was in Japan. The lights presumably strobe in real life too, but I never really pay attention or my brain compensates or something, but here it's pretty noticeable, which I quite like. Eri did a pretty good job of staying still too!

Shu

Electric Pig — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:01:55 +0000

From my lil'Sis' gig in Notting Hill. Unfortunately shot at 1600 ISO thanks to the low light and then worked on in PS. She was very good.

Rainfall

Electric Pig — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:40:29 +0000

50mm f1.8

Rain Temple

Electric Pig — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:47:18 +0000

2 shot panorama. 50mm f1.8

Olympus OM-1

Electric Pig — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:08:18 +0000

For Christmas, my Dad very kindly gave me a brand new second hand Olympus OM-1. I've been wanting one for a while, it's the camera that a lot of people learn to shoot properly on, something that I have been wanting to do and now can. Stoopidly (but typically), I just shoved the first film from my drawer into the camera without checking properly, and on developing it have found some vicious light leaks that, on checking the negatives, seem to be coming from the sprocket holes. I rechecked the film and realised that it was an expired roll, 2 years out of date, which hopefully will explain the light leaks. We shall have to see what the next roll looks like. Anyway, these are my favourite shots, light leaks and all, from the first roll: