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.

First shot with my new camera. There's obviously some kind of light-leaking problem on the left hand side, but apparantly it's pretty common, something to do with the foam under the darkslide that needs to be replaced, which I should be able to do myself if I can find the parts. Hopefully have it done before I go to Japan in a few weeks...

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I haven't done one of these for a while, partly as I haven't been going in depth into Flickr too much recently. But anyway, here are my most recent favourites. I think my favourite of these has to be this one from a team of Spanish students who designed and built a weather balloon and camera combo, sent it off into the atmosphere and then retrieve the camera and develop the shots. It's a beautiful, beautiful shot!

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!

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.

This is a ten shot panorama of the main reading room in the library at SOAS. I've been taking shots there all week, and I think that this is probably the best one, although I'm still not completely happy with it.

Olympus OM1. f1.8 Kodak 160NC