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piano recital – huddersfield
Highfields Centre, Huddersfield
I am Photographing pianists at Highfields Centre, in Hudderfield this evening.
Participants or family – if you are visiting to view and/or purchase prints of photographs please visit again at the start of next week.
You will be able to view and purchase prints through the ‘store‘ button at the top of the page.
If you click the store button at the moment you will be redirected here, until the photos are up and ready for viewing.
Many thanks,
Chris
Chickenhawk – Live At Leeds
Quality multi-faceted riff-based noise-monsters Chickenhawk took to centre stage, in the middle of the room, at around 8:30 last night as part of the ‘Live At Leeds‘ event, at The Library Pub in Leeds.
Very loud, and interesting / entertaining. These soothing minstrels produce a big sound, even with their unorthodox ‘drag all the gear into the middle of the room and play as loud as we can’ approach to playing live.
Chickenhawk - The Library - Live at Leeds
Unfortunately, being in the middle of the room meant there was very little ambient light hitting the band so I had to rely solely on the flash , and frequently using it in ‘2nd curtain sync‘ mode to achieve the warmer feel, with the streaks of light while also freezing the action.
For me, this technique is a bit hit and miss – but occasionally I get decent enough results.
Chickenhawk - The Library - Live at Leeds
Chickenhawk - The Library - Live at Leeds
These ‘contrasty’ colourful shots also make pretty good black and white conversions with the noise from the ISO adding to the effect, I think.
Chickenhawk - The Library - Live at Leeds
Chickenhawk - The Library - Live at Leeds
Chickenhawk - The Library - Live at Leeds
Chickenhawk - The Library - Live at Leeds
Chickenhawk - The Library - Live at Leeds
Chickenhawk: http://www.myspace.com/chickenhawk
Liveatleeds: http://www.liveatleeds.com/
Library Pub (leeds): http://www.myspace.com/upstairsatthelibraryleeds
See the rest of the images at my flickr page:
Skull Branded Pirates – Leeds Rios
Yarrgh. Tonight I attended a ‘pirate metal’ gig, that’s right; ‘pirates’ as in Jonny Depp / Orlando Bloom and ‘metal’ as in Metallica Iron Maiden.
Skull Branded Pirates - Leeds Rios - by chrisdearnleyphotography.com
I don’t really understand it as a concept, but the packed out Rios is testament to how popular this genre is.
Graham Wilson of Skull Branded Pirates
The conditions weren’t great for photos, but they rarely are for live music! The venue has its lighting rig set up behind the stage, rather then pointing at the stage, which I find strange as it meant the performers are silhouetted, even to the naked eye, so external flash (Canon Speedlite 430 EX) was used, with a Sto-Fen diffuser. I deviated between pointing the flash directly at the perfomers, and angling it slightly to bounce the light off of surfaces in the room.
Graham Wilson of Skull Branded Pirates
For the on-camera settings, I left the camera on manual for most of the gig and set the shutterspeed to 1/60 and waited, poised, for moments of pirate metal magic. I shot quite a few without the flash, relying only on the ambient light. They didn’t come out so well, but made reasonable black and white conversions.
Leeds Rios - photographed by chrisdearnleyphotography.com
sea monster?
Skull Branded Pirates were thoroughly entertaining, they even had a large sea monster on stage.
Skull Branded Pirates
Check them out on Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/skullbrandedpirates
You can also view the rest of the set of photos at my flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisdearnley/
contact phone number
Leeds wedding photographer ChrisDearnleyPhotography can now be contacted by phone: 0113 350 8387
Flash Photography with Canon EOS Cameras
- Great useful guide on flash photography.
“. . . So, here’s some information that may help you understand some of the mysteries of flash photography with Canon EOS camera equipment. Much of the information presented herein is fairly general in nature and thus covers similar flash systems used by other manufacturers, but much is very specific to Canon EOS products.
Note that this document covers Canon EOS products, including digital EOS cameras. Canon’s PowerShot series of digital cameras can use Speedlite EX-series flash units, but since they aren’t EOS cameras there are significant differences in the way they work.”
