I Heart Hiroshima
So I went to shoot The Mint Chicks on Tuesday night at the Step Inn in Fortitude Valley, we got told doors open at 8pm first band to go on around 8:30pm. I thought it was one support I Heart Hiroshima and then Mint Chicks, but it was three supports IHH and Mint Chicks. Rachel and I sat in the gaming room for a good hour or so waiting for I Heart Hiroshima to take to the stage, almost 3 hours later they go on!
Cue the worst lighting in the world, broken glasses all over the floor in front of stage and the worst dressed crowed in the entire universe! I shot with my 24-70 f2.8 to try it out and it was shocking so I switched over to my 50mm f1.8 which was a little better I really could have gone for a f1.4 this night! As the drummer in this band is highly animated I wanted heaps of photos of her but at the start of the show she pushed the light away from her leaving her partially light down her right side [my left]
So I knelt in front of the stage [in god knows what my leg was wet] with my 50mm and shot away, as I have an Extreme III there was no lag what so ever on rapid fire! After a while I thought I’d attach my 70-200mm to try get a bit closer, alas the lighting wasn’t good enough for my f2.8 IS I ended up shooing on 8/100 at 1600ISO the result was so craptacular it hurt on many levels!
After finishing shooting and feeling let down yet again by lighting I decided to call it a night, I wasn’t going to use my flash on The Mint Chicks and the place was getting smelly and hot. So in the end I only shot one band out of five, what a disappointment!
I am hoping Friday night Car Park Carnage at Jubilee the lighting will be up to standards so I can get some nice photos.
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