testmeat photoblog

last wedesday i went to the cockpit to see a band called get cape. wear cape. fly. i decided to go at the last minute so i didn't have a ticket when i got there. at the door i found out it was sold out and was pointed in the direction of a tout. at the exact moment someone else was selling his 2 spare tickets to the same man. despite being offered more money by the tout he agreed to sell one to me at the original price. i think that there's an unwritten disdain that every gig-goer has towards touts that you cannot buy. luckily for me that was the case that night.

anyways i really enjoyed the gig, the band is basically one guy and his acoustic guitar singing mellow songs with a political edge... although not as folk as that sentence makes it sound. i experimented with a few different ways of taking photo after the difficulty i had experienced at the last gig that i went to. a solution i found, which is only possible now i have my new camera, is to use manual settings and set the shutter speed to something low such as 1/20. this is lower than the auto non-flash settings and allows you to get sharper images providing the subject is lit well enough.