[stevegreen]

Over the Easter weekend I was up in Anstruther in Scotland for a festival organised by Fence Records where a lot of their signed bands and other 'friends' play small intimate gigs sometimes with as few as 8 people attending. I took lots of photos when I was there in December (HERE) but this time it was mainly concentrated on taking shots of the bands whilst they played.

Here are a few, more on my Flickr stream. As always each image is a hot link to the respective Flickr photo page where larger sizes and .exif can be seen. All were taken with the 24-105f/4L strapped to my trusty EOS 350D

Comments welcome

The Jose



Things In Herds



Down The Tiny Steps



Gummi Bako



The Great Park



Adem



Alasdair Roberts



Malcolm Middleton

[skipper954]

Nice series. I think the ones without the background clutter work the best.

Did you use flash? Did your camera make a shutter noise? Was it intrusive for the musicians or was the music so loud that it didn't make a difference?

skip

[stevegreen]

Originally Posted by skipper954

Nice series. I think the ones without the background clutter work the best.

Did you use flash? Did your camera make a shutter noise? Was it intrusive for the musicians or was the music so loud that it didn't make a difference?

skip

Thanks skipper954.

I didn't use flash at all as all I have is the onboard flash. I had to up the ISO quite significantly for the 'darker' shots and to make sure that my shutter speed stayed above or around the 1/50th mark (to minimise motion blur), I also underexposed by one or two stops and recovered in RAW. The camera did make a shutter noise but really it didn't put the artists off (there were some people there using P&S with a flash throughout the sets) though I am sure they heard it when i was literally 10' away from them in the smaller gigs. The larger gigs (the darker shots) had about 300 there and though I was right at the front the artists wouldn't have heard the shutter.

[skipper954]

Interesting. Thanks.