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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:
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.”
