tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46955825777735675982024-03-19T02:45:21.989+00:00Camera Stage LeftRamblings from Steve Perks, concert photographer.CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-66944180271546418392011-10-22T11:03:00.000+01:002011-10-22T11:03:02.371+01:00Further camera woes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />The camera came back from the repair centre in Glasgow with the auto-focus problem resolved.<br />I gave it a quick try out in the house and all seemed well.<br />
I had had to cancel work due to the problem and there was a small gap before my next booked gig, which was YOU ME AT SIX at their Aberdeen show.<br /><br />I fired the camera up in readiness for the first support band and got the dreaded ERR99.<br />With some frantic power downs/ups and lens/battery/CF card swopping, I got around the problem, but had to leave the camera powered up or the problem returned after a short rest.<br />
<br />I did some extensive Googling on the subject, and waded my way through the usual forum threads and suggestions. I found an article on Canon's official site stating that there was a known problem relating to the mirror assembly, so delivered the camera back to AJ Johnstone in Glasgow, and made it clear that I would not be at all happy about being charged for a repair of a problem I didn't have before they touched it, and one that is documented on the Canon site quoting free repairs for affected cameras.<br />
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To their credit, AJ Johnstone got the camera back to me within a week and with no charge for the repair.<br />
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If you are a Canon user, you are very likely to see ERR99 at some point, and the best resource I was pointed to by a forum member was this one from <a href="http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2008/12/canons-error-99-the-man-the-myth">Roger Cicala at Lens Rentals</a><br />
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It is a six page essay on the subject, based on Rogers' research on the subject and the experience of Lens Rentals who have seen this issue a lot. Thanks to Roger for a great article, which he plans to update as new information becomes available.<br />
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I'm hoping this is the last of my camera woes for a while.<br />I'll still never buy a brand new 1 series Canon ever again!CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-85452407098189360522011-09-19T14:36:00.001+01:002011-09-19T14:36:31.800+01:00I'm in the pit stopThe 1D Mk3 is in for repair.<br />
In my last blog, I mentioned the severe auto focus issues I was having at the last gig.<br />
It didn't get any better, despite trying all the usual stuff - cleaning contacts, swapping out batteries, resetting to factory presets, updating firmware etc. etc.<br />
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Canon's website pointed me towards AJ Johnstone in Glasgow, who are the authorised Canon Repair Centre. I got a few warnings about them, and a few alternatives.<br />
It seems if you dig deep enough, you'll read good and bad reports about all of the repair centres, but in the end, I decided to stick with the 'official' repair centre.<br />
I delivered it in person on Saturday morning, and sure enough, the guy behind me was back in with a lens they repaired and had got it back in a worse state than when it went in - totally unusable.<br />I hope I'm one of the lucky ones.<br /><br />Ironically, despite waiting sometimes weeks in between email communication with New York, as soon as the camera failed, I got a flurry of emails from Retna Lts and I'm now fully on-board and ready to shoot.<br />
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One of my priorities will be funding a second hand body to ensure I don't find myself in this position again.<br />"Should have done that already" I hear you say - I'm a family man, with bills to pay and kids to raise and feeling the pinch like everyone else. The family comes first, every time.<br /><br />I very much doubt I'll be buying another 1 series Canon though - one of the reasons I bought one was because I expected some durability and reliability out of a pro body, which, after 2 years has had comparitavely moderate use (I don't spray and pray) and is in immaculate condition.<br />
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The repair bill is going to cause some real pain, especially as we all start budgeting for Christmas, but I guess shit happens, and you always find a way through.<br /><br />In the meantime, I'm going strir-crazy without the camera!<br />
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Oh, and to save anyone the trouble of commenting:<br /><br />'Shoulda bought Nikon'CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-70646010883056330322011-09-04T20:53:00.001+01:002011-09-05T07:25:14.189+01:00Average White Band, camera trouble & drunken idiot trouble<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Saturday 3rd September took me to Montrose Town Hall, less than 3 miles from home as opposed to the usual 5 hour round trip to Glasgow I have to endure for the sake of three songs.<br />
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The occasion was the fabulous Average White Band, brought to the town by the Montrose Music Festival Committee, for whom I shoot as part of the official photography team.<br />
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I've loved this band for a very long time. I was playing 'Pick Up The Pieces' in a band as far back as 1979 and know just about every song they have recorded - this is my type of music.<br />
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There are still two original members, Onnie McIntyre and Alan Gorrie, supplemented by Fred Vigdor on sax and keys, Rocky Bryant on drums and the multi-talented Klyde Jones on bass, guitar, keys and vocals.<br />
Klyde has an amazing voice and sang lead on quite a few of the songs.<br />
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There is a special connection with Montrose for AWB - original tenor saxophonist Malcom 'Molly' Duncan was born and raised in the town.<br />
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They played a great show, and were as tight as a camels' ass in a sandstorm.<br />
It was however a stressful shoot for me - the auto-focus decided to fail on my two year old Canon 1d Mk3.<br />
It would initially come to focus, then back off, which also meant the shutter button wouldn't trigger.<br />
I noticed it at the start of the first song of the support band, and as you do, went into panic mode.<br />
I tried swopping lenses, turning off and taking the battery out and double checking all settings.<br />
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I had to manual focus throughout the night and got the job done, but did miss a few special moments.<br />
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On return home, I stayed up until 02:30am, trying to get to the bottom of the problem.<br />
Google focusing problems on the 1d Mk3 and you will be faced with endless pages on the AF Servo focusing issues the product suffered with at launch, but nothing related to my specific problem (I bought mine when all the issues had been resolved)<br />
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I documented every one of the myriad of settings on the camera, then did a full reset back to factory settings.<br />
I tried leaving the battery out for half an hour and still, the camera wouldn't focus correctly.<br />
Miraculously, the problem suddenly disappeared. I tried it again this morning and it locks on every time.<br />
I have no idea how the problem arose, and even less idea on how it went away, but I will be on edge for the next shoot - I'll definitely be taking a backup body.<br />
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As if that wasn't stress enough, I stayed to enjoy the show after the first three, stood right at the front.<br />
This gig was supposed to be a bit of a disaster in terms of ticket sales, so much so, the festival committee had considered cancelling it altogether, but the cancellation fees would have been prohibitive.<br />
I had been actively promoting the gig on Facebook, Twitter and any other means I could think of.<br />
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The room thankfully filled up nicely - I suspect many had been waiting for their salary at the end of the month before committing.<br />
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This caused another problem however, as unlike previous gigs with artists of this calibre, there was no security team in place, or crowd barrier. As we all know, some people just can't drink on an empty head and there was one over-merry chap who was making a nuisance of himself - to the band, and to fellow audience members. As I was wearing an official t-shirt (official photographer that is) I was approached a couple of times by guests alerting me to his behaviour. The band had also seen the guy apparently punch his girlfriend and they alerted their road manager who was in the wings.<br />
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I decided to go to the foyer and get the rest of the festival team, who apparently had just been dealing with a fight outside the venue, which left no-one up front expect me. I'm a lover, not a fighter, and the rest of the team were not trained or qualified to deal with serious security or crowd control issues.<br />
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We created a wall of bodies along the stage front, whilst trying to diffuse the situation around the drunken guy. The problem later moved to the foyer, as the band were doing a meet & greet/CD signing session, and this guy was intent on speaking to the band, so again, we had to create a wall of bodies.<br />
One of the (very large) festival committee members eventually sweet talked him down and he went on his (slightly too) merry way.<br />
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I'm kind of wishing I had done the drive to Glasgow now (AWB were playing there the night before)<br />
The drunken guy would have been picking his teeth up on the car park if he'd have tried this down there!<br />
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All is well though, and I got some images I liked.<br />
Next gig is Wilko Johnson - I'm definitely going to need auto-focus to keep up with him!<br />
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<br />CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-40405817493713532472011-08-27T13:01:00.001+01:002011-08-27T13:01:51.812+01:00"We have no budget for photos"Tony Sleep sums it up perfectly - nothing I can add...<br />
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Enough said!<br /><br />CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-4156268951278801802011-08-26T19:57:00.000+01:002011-08-26T19:57:48.232+01:00Belladrum Festival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Earlier in the year, I won the Pop Cop 'Best Scottish Music Photo 2010' judged by Harry Benson.<br />One of the prizes was weekend guestlist and photo-pass for the Belladrum Festival in Beauly, Invernesshire.<br /><br />This was my first outdoor festival, as a punter and as a photographer, and my first time sleeping in a tent since 1975. It turned out to be a fantastic experience - the weather (contrary to the weather forecast) was glorious, right up until the end of the last night. The atmosphere was fantastic, the food was great and not overpriced, I met some great new photographer friends, and got some great images of some great bands.<br /><br />Highlights for me photographically, were Texas, Deacon Blue, Vintage Trouble, Metaltech, Echo & The Bunnymen, Newton Faulkner and the Gerry Jablonski Electric Blues Band.<br /><br />I got quite a few fun crowd shots too!<br /><br />Without further ado, here are some of my favourites from the weekend:<br />
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Playing catchup with the blog again, as I've been really busy.<br />I had the honour of photographing and reviewing Anglo-American supergroup Black Country Communion at the end of July.<br /><br />
This is one I was really excited about, as I love their music.<br />The band consists of Glenn Hughes (Trapeze/Deep Purple/Black Sabbath) on bass, phenominal blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham (son of Jon Bonham/Led Zepellin) and Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater) on keyboards.<br /><br />As an added bonus, Micheal Schenker was supporting, and as a double added bonus, I met Glenn Hughes, got to shake his hand and have a quick chat.<br /><br />As a triple added bonus, the band's PR agency were bowled over with the images and have been using them in PR. One of the images of Joe Bonamassa has been submitted to Guitar Techniques magazine as they are running a big story on him in the October issue (due out in September) and my fingers are crossed that I get my first magazine front cover.<br /><br />As a quadruple added bonus (there's a pattern here!) the PR company have invited me down to Blackpool in October to photograph Bonamassa's concert as part of his solo tour.<br />
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I wrote up a review on the BCC concert for Mudkiss, which <a href="http://www.mudkiss.com/blackcountrycommunion.htm">you can read here</a><br />
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CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-29801664408751234132011-07-10T10:43:00.003+01:002011-07-10T11:26:29.675+01:00The next step - Agency workI've been doing a lot of soul searching about where I want to to take my music photography.<br />
I've been following the debate on 'working for free' closely and standing two steps back to see both sides of the argument.<br />
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Everybody who attempts music/live concert photography will know that it takes a lot of time and hard work to build a quality portfolio and contacts - no portfolio, no accreditation.<br />
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I've worked with some great bands on a 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' basis . . .bands who have become good friends. They have helped me to build my portfolio, and have been instrumental in opening doors to wider horizons.<br />
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On the other hand, I can sympathise with pro music photographers who have watched their industry decimated by photographers of varying abilities working for free, getting under their feet in the pit with little knowledge of pit etiquette, and sometimes, taking the accreditation away from the working pro.<br />
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I had decided early on to pull the plug on the 'free' work as soon as practicable, but couldn't see how I could move forward. Working on the local circuit, it would take a saint to educate bands into valuing the work of a good photographer. The band (generally) gets paid, the venue earns money, the bar staff get paid, the cleaner gets paid, the photographer doesn't. Not only that, the photographer leaves the gig to start hours of hard work, editing/processing/refining and delivering the images, long after the gig is over.<br />
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There is a real skill-set involved, plus a huge investment in equipment and time, but the advent of the digital age has undermined the quality of a good music photographer. Almost everyone owns a digital camera and a complete amateur can get lucky with a great shot every now and again. Why should a small band pay for the services of a pro in this D.I.Y age?<br />
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The line between serious 'amateur' and the professional has blurred.<br />
There are some very talented 'part time' photographers out there, consistently producing quality work and there are some pro's who seem to do nothing but complain, and have lost their spark.<br />
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I greatly admire any professional photographer that makes a living out of music photography, I suspect none of them are running Ferraris or away on their yachts at the weekend - they must be doing it because they can't imagine doing anything else.<br />
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I stopped working for free, and as expected, the work dried up - overnight - ZILCH.<br />
I have been befriended by a high profile professional music photographer and her manager on Facebook, who have given me some priceless advice - THING BIG<br />
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I am the original 'self doubter' and learned the lesson that if you don't value your own work, nobody else will.<br />
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So how do I move up a step?<br />
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I have two objectives:<br />
1] To cover higher profile artists<br />
2] To get paid<br />
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There are a couple of brick walls that stand in your way.<br />
To achieve 1] you need to get accredited (get a photo pass)<br />
To achieve this, you need to be working for someone, either a publication or an agency, or directly for band management.<br />
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Printed publications are pretty much sewn up, with either staffers or preferred freelancers.<br />
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On-line publications are where most head to and are a great way of getting the passes.<br />
Music blogs are a good place to start, but again, they will have a preferred team of 'correspondents' who understandably guard their territory closely, plus, in most cases there is no payment involved - you get the pass and portfolio images.<br />
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I contribute to Mudkiss Fanzine. It is a highly respected blog with a large team of contributors (photography/live reviews/album reviews and exclusive interviews)<br />
The Mudkiss team do what they do out of a passion for music, and are non-profit.<br />
There are others that fill their pages with free content from contributors, but make a profit from advertising revenue - erm, no thanks! It really goes against the grain to work for free to make profit for others.<br />
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The ultimate goal, and where the real money is, is to work directly for the bands/management, as a tour photographer, or carrying out portrait shoots for tour programmes and album covers. <br />
This is for the very gifted few.<br />
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I decided the next step would be agency work.<br />
Some high profile acts stipulate 'no agency photographers' and the money is split between you and the agency, typically 60/40. Some will only send you a cheque when you have reached a monthly target, or payment gets carried over to the next month. Some will do all the photo pass chasing for you, some expect you to do it.<br />
Some agencies will send you the assignments, others will let you pick and choose and use them as a reference for the accreditation, some are a mixture of the two.<br />
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The agency option kind of resolves 1] and 2] - it gets you in front of the bigger artists, and you have the potential to earn money. You only get paid if the agency sells the images and you won't get rich any time soon, but can be a useful residual revenue stream if you build up a substantial library.<br />
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I have until now viewed working out of Scotland to be a disadvantage, but it has one major advantage - a few high profile bands will start their tour up North and work their way South. This means you can get in at the very start of the tour and have a better chance of getting your images sold, as the tour is 'hot' news, more so than for the dozen shooters in a pit in London near the end of the tour.<br />
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With this in mind, I went about getting signed to an agency.<br />
I took a hard look at my portfolio, and what the agencies were actually using/selling.<br />
I took a sledge hammer to my portfolio, carried out a major cull and re-edited the rest to the best of my ability.<br />
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The end result paid off and I have signed to the very first agency I applied to - Big Pictures.<br />
Big Pictures is reputedly the world's biggest celeb/entertainment picture agency, run by Darren Lloyd (yes, Mr Paparrazi)<br />
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I'm now looking forward to my first assignments for them.<br />
I'm only a couple of years into my path as a music photographer - it's a small step forward, but one thing I have learned is that one thing leads to another and doors open - you just have to be smart enough to dash through them before they shut again.<br />
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<br />CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-27743710990398911712011-05-27T18:14:00.002+01:002011-05-27T18:15:08.729+01:00The mad weekend comes around again!Tonight is the start of the crazy manic weekend called Mo Fest in my home town of Montrose.<br />
It starts tonight at the Town Hall with Skerryvore, supported by Jill Jackson (ex Speedway)<br />
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Tommorrow, I cover 21 bands across 14 venues and slightly less on Sunday.<br />
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On Saturday, I start at 12pm and cover bands in half hour increments (including getting in position at the next venue) right through until 1:30am.<br />
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It's exhausting, but great fun.<br />
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Pictures coming soon, both here and on the official <a href="http://www.montrosemusicfestival.co.uk/">Mo Fest Official website</a>CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-83680949736407403612011-05-14T14:37:00.001+01:002011-05-14T14:37:44.012+01:003 Songs No Flash - Photography ExhibitionThings have been a little crazy here, which have prevented me from blogging for a while, even though I've had things to blog about!<br />
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One of the main reasons is a promotion within my day job which has proved to be a hectic and stressful settling in period.<br />
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My quick blog today is to tell you about an upcoming exhibition I am part of.<br />
I am a member of the Official Photography Team for the Montrose Music Festival.<br />
17 venues, over 60 bands over one weekend between the three of us - myself, Wendy Adie and Brian Smith.<br />
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An exhausting schedule, but great fun!<br />
This year we are putting on an exhibition at Montrose Town Hall called '3 Songs No Flash', featuring our images of bands across the town in previous years, along with a section featuring some of our other concert photography work.<br />
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The exhibition runs from 23rd May to 5th June.<br />
The music festival itself is on over the weekend of 27th 29th May, so if you are in town, swing by for a little light relief from the madness.<br />
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The displayed 18" x 12" images will also be available for sale at a very reasonable cost.<br />
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Hope to see you there!<br />
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That was the explicit instruction to the lighting engineer at Montrose Town Hall from Dr Feelgood, and what a great decision it was.<br />
For a change I had light to spare, and light that wasn't dancing all over the place.<br />
I was wearing two hats on Saturday 2nd April . . . part of the official photography team for MoFest, Wendy Adie, Brian Smith and myself, otherwise known as the 'Triple A Team'.<br />
I was also there to review the show for <a href="http://www.mudkiss.com/">Mudkiss Fanzine</a>.<br />
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You can view our collective gallery from the night on the <a href="http://www.montrosemusicfestival.co.uk/wp/?p=600">official MoFest site</a> and the <a href="http://www.mudkiss.com/drfeelgoodreview.htm">Mudkiss Review here</a>.<br />
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Monday 21st March saw me once again on assignment for <a href="http://mudkiss.com/">Mudkiss Fanzine</a>, for a live review of the Oran Mor, Glasgow gig of The Charlatans Acoustic Tour. You can read the <a href="http://www.mudkiss.com/charlatansacousticset.htm">full review here</a><br />
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There were a few headaches to overcome, the first being no guest list or photo pass details left at the door.<br />
I counted five photographers in all, and no-one had passes waiting for them.<br />
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I was fortunate to have dealt with the extremely efficient Natasha Parker at Work It Media, who is the Press Officer for The Charlatans. Despite her best efforts, and having treble checked arrangements were in place, the band management did not supply the venue with the guest list.<br />
Fortunately, Natasha emailed written confirmation earlier that day, along with three emergency mobile numbers in case of any hiccups.<br />
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The primary contact was the road manager, whose mobile was going straight to voicemail.<br />
Thanks to Natasha, I was the only one with the back up numbers which eventually got us through the door.<br />
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As this was an 'intimate' gig, there was no pit or barrier and the fans had already lined the edge of the stage in front of the 500 + packed crowd. I had to use every last ounce of charm to blag my way to the edge of the stage. The lighting was also pretty atrocious, photographically speaking, especially for the Charlatans.<br />
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At times, I had to rely on manual focus as even the Canon 1d Mk3 was struggling to lock on.<br />
I only needed a small handful of images to accompany the review, so all was not lost.<br />
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Trials and tribulations aside, it was a wonderful gig, in a wonderful venue.CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-15044429694363452202011-03-13T15:37:00.001+00:002011-03-13T16:15:27.959+00:00'Chicken and Egg' - Getting the bigger gigs<div class="MsoNormal">Anyone who has decided to take the crazy decision to specialise in concert photography will be familiar with the ‘chicken and egg’ scenario.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You start to build a portfolio by working with local bands and may get the occasional stroke of luck getting to shoot some of the bigger names.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You won’t get the bigger names without a decent portfolio, and you won’t get a decent portfolio without working with artists who have raised their game and worked on their stage-craft, resulting in more appealing images.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Even a strong portfolio is often not enough.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">To work with bigger acts, you need to be working for a publication, be it printed or online.<br />
After all, the artists and their management are looking for publicity. <br />
They won’t get much of that by supplying you with an opportunity to feed your portfolio.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">OK, a strong portfolio will help get you aligned to a publication, but in this oversaturated market, there are very few opportunities and many publications are loyal to their existing photographers, who understandably guard their positions fiercely.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The problem doesn’t end there.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">If all you are capable of is photographing a show (and that can be a challenge by itself), the publication will need to also send along a reviewer; few are likely to run with pictures alone.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Getting two bodies through the door is more difficult than one, as guest list passes can be like gold dust for established and successful artists. <br />
PR/Management will prioritise the available spaces to whoever will give their artist the most exposure.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Many photographers have had to diversify, and are required to take the pictures and write the review.</div><div class="MsoNormal">As you can imagine, some photographers have better writing skills than others.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The best place to start is with online publications.<br />
I spent many frustrating months building a database of publications, and contacted each one.<br />
I usually received no reply. <br />
The few that did take time to reply would usually inform me that they had no opportunities at present or my geographical location was not ideal. (I live in Montrose, N.E Scotland. Glasgow, the epicentre of the Scottish music scene is a 2 ½ hour drive away)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I remembered that a childhood friend, Mel Smith was one of the co-founders of MUDKISS Fanzine.<br />
We lived literally round the corner from each other in my home town of Newton Le Willows, Merseyside.</div><div class="MsoNormal">MUDKISS is a much respected online fanzine with an excellent team of reviewers, covering everything with an alternative flavour, such as live shows, exclusive interviews, album reviews and interviews with creative artists such as authors, models and even photographers.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I mentioned to Mel in passing that I could maybe photograph one of the bigger names visiting Scotland at some point in the future.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Within hours of the conversation, a list of potential gigs appeared in my inbox.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The catch? I would have to write the show review in addition to the photography!<br />
“Not a problem Mel, I can write reviews too” was my reply.<br />
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I have thrown myself into the deep end and learned to swim several times throughout my life, so I set about researching how to tackle the task in hand. I also spent some time analysing reviews by respected writers and bought a few music magazines.<br />
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I chose The Grinspoon gig at King Tuts as my first assignment.<br />
I researched the band fully. I was given access to their latest album and press reviews by their PR company and scoured YouTube for videos of the band.</div><div class="MsoNormal">By the time the gig came around, I was an enthusiastic fan.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
Grinspoon are a multi-platinum selling rock band with a massive following in their native Australia and were in the UK to promote the European release of their new album.<br />
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The show was supplemented by two excellent support bands, JETTBLACK from London, and Sucioperro from Scotland.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The gig was ideal for cutting my teeth on and gave me the confidence to further explore this new found craft.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I am now looking forward to carrying out further reviews for MUDKISS, with The Charlatans, Dr Feelgood and The Dum Dum Girls in the pipeline over the next month.<br />
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My experience as a working musician since 1977 helps tremendously. I should by now be able to write a review with some authority on the subject and my background helps to build up trust and rapport with the artist.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The added advantage of working for a publication is that you are not relentlessly chasing photo passes; the PR companies often approach the publication with tour dates.<br />
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It is a good feeling to be able to take a break from the relentless chasing after work and watch quality assignments come to me!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">You can read <a href="http://www.mudkiss.com/grinspoonlivereview.htm">my first live review for MUDKISS here</a>, hopefully, the first of many.</div>CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-47170532655907871052011-03-13T13:31:00.001+00:002011-03-13T13:33:19.865+00:00ABBAMANIA - The Music Hall Aberdeen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1_VLc_Pn-z0vTecTnK3lUlvoatkkS_1d2S5pTXsvGoU24ITMb-SZ9fnY627Bl4IZAF2bsVpsUwKq5R3UtMcTDWljcoGRZskRGVgjTYULxyOh1tfJr13EWEJcScrP8PX3rwOehYGyjaI/s1600/8L7Q3201-Edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB1_VLc_Pn-z0vTecTnK3lUlvoatkkS_1d2S5pTXsvGoU24ITMb-SZ9fnY627Bl4IZAF2bsVpsUwKq5R3UtMcTDWljcoGRZskRGVgjTYULxyOh1tfJr13EWEJcScrP8PX3rwOehYGyjaI/s640/8L7Q3201-Edit.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I first worked with ABBAMANIA a couple of years ago at The Webster Theatre in Arbroath.<br />
The resulting images were used on their website, including the main image on the home page.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Nyree Burt, who performed the role of Freda had moved on to new pastures and was replaced by Juliana Hoy, so it was time to get some updated images.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I was very impressed with their show in Arbroath and the show at Aberdeen was even better.<br />
The sound and lighting show are excellent <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the show includes a number of costume changes…a photographers’ feast!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The show is supplemented by a superb backing band, consisting of keyboards (played by Musical Director Steven Galert), 2 guitars, bass, drums and two female backing vocalists.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The core members are Ewa Scott (Agnetha), Juliana Hoy (Frida), Steven Galert (Benny) and Ross Taberner (Bjorn).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Close your eyes and you will be hard pushed to tell the difference between ABBAMANIA and the real deal. The show is ideal for all age groups, and tonight’s show in Aberdeen was a sell-out. </div><div class="MsoNormal">ABBAMANIA tour all over the UK and Europe.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A pleasant surprise on the night was bumping into Robert Pratt, director of Chimes International.<br />
I toured the UK in 1979 as guitarist in the backing band to The Dallas Boys, regarded as the first ever 'Boy Band', before the likes of The Osmonds. Robert was responsible for the dates in Scotland on the first leg of the tour.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">So, without further ado, here are some of my favourite images from the night…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Back in my wild bass playing days, my band The Outlaws covered a number of tracks from the ‘Official Bootleg’ album…the first release by The Blues Band in 1979.</div><div class="MsoNormal">The band has a rich pedigree...</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul Jones</b>, vocalist/harmonica, just celebrated the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of his Blues Show on Radio 2.<br />
He was front man for Manfred Mann and recorded many well-known hits…The Mighty Quinn/Do Wah Diddy/Pretty Flamingo/5-4-3-2-1/My Name Is Jack/Come Tomorrow…the list goes on.<br />
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Brian Jones offered Paul the gig with The Rolling Stones and he turned it down… the position was subsequently filled by Mick Jagger.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Paul has performed live or recorded with legendary artist such as Memphis Slim, Alexis Korner, Henry Gray, Alvin "Youngblood" Hart, Susan Tedeschi, Eric Bibb, Otis and Grand Tina Turner.<br />
Paul also fronts the reformed and renamed Manfreds.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dave Kelly</b> is a respected slide player in blues circles. In New York, he jammed with Muddy Waters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He became a friend to Howlin' Wolf and John Lee Hooker, and toured in their bands.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tom McGuiness</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">In the early 1960’s, Tom shared the stage in The Roosters with none other than Eric Clapton.<br />
He joined Manfred Mann in 1964 and stayed with them until they disbanded in 1969.<br />
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In 1970, with drummer Hughie Flint and singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle, he formed McGuiness Flint, and 'When I'm Dead and Gone' hit No. 1 in the charts.</div><div class="MsoNormal">His book on the music business, 'So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star?' is still essential reading for any aspiring pop musician.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Tom is also a current member of The Manfreds.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">The Blues Band drummer, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Rob Townsend</b>, along with Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney, formed Family. They were one of Britain's most creative and original bands, with an instrumental line-up which included flute and violin – unheard of in those early guitar, bass & drums days. <br />
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After seven great albums and four hit singles, Family broke up and Rob joined the duo Medicine Head, with whom he enjoyed more chart success. Upon their demise, he was soon back in the top ten with piano-playing balladeer Peter Skellern.<br />
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He is also in the current line-up of The Manfreds.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gary Fletcher</b>, The Blues Band bassist, met Dave Kelly in late ’78 when they both played in a band put together by Wilgar Campbell, the ex-Rory Gallagher drummer, called The Wildcats.</div><div class="MsoNormal">He also leads his own band, The Gary Fletcher Band.<br />
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Gary is unique, as he plays left handed basses strung right handed.<br />
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I was in a privileged position on this night, as I was invited to join the band on-stage during their sound check to get some unique images, although Gary was missing as he arrived late. <br />
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The plan was to also get some backstage non-action portraits, but Dave Kelly was suffering with a knee injury and was still in a great deal of pain following an operation, so the portrait shoot didn’t happen.<br />
Dave also spent the entire show seated on stage.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I subsequently learned that Dave spent the following morning in A&E at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary to drain fluid from the badly swollen right knee.<br />
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He had to drive from Aberdeen to Glasgow that day for their next gig…what a trouper!</div><div class="MsoNormal">I spent some time in the Green Room with the band before the show and enjoyed a coffee and chat with these perfect gentlemen.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Here are some of my favourite images from the night…</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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One final note on ettiquette...I normally wear all black, usually a black t-shirt and jeans. Tonight's concert was a seated/tabled affair.<br />
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I always try to dress apropriately, so wore a suit and shirt on this occasion. Remember, you are in full view of the audience and they will always remember the small details.<br />
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I also avoid shooting from centre stage on these occasions. <br />
The Music Hall has a very high stage...the audience are there to watch the show, not the photographer, so I stay to the left and right of the stage.<br />
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Time permitting, I will walk all the way around the back of the audience to swop sides.<br />
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There were no time restrictions tonight, as I was there by invitation to shoot the entire show.<br />
My self imposed brief was 'Do what you like, but don't piss anybody off'.<br />
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I still chose to observe the three song rule and shot the remainder of the show discreetly, either from the side wings, or from the sound board with a 400mm lens.<br />
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A big thank you to Lari, the tour manager for making me feel welcome.<br />
Thanks also to the lovely Shirley from the Merchandise stall for the coffee and introductions, and Adam on the sound desk, not forgetting Gilly Taylor from GTA for making everything possible.<br />
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<a href="http://www.thebluesband.net/">The Official Blues Band website</a>CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-30538036807468332192011-03-13T08:32:00.000+00:002011-03-13T08:32:19.014+00:00Burns Night - Roughneck Riot + The Real McKenzies<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Burns night saw me back at Drummonds Aberdeen for a feast of kilted, Celtic punk, and what a fantastic night it turned out to be! Greg Matheison from Chaos Promotions sure knows how to throw a party!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I took the gig on, not really knowing what to expect, because my old drummer teaches the Roughneck Riot drummer and gave me the heads up that they were coming up from Warrington to Scotland for a mini tour.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I kind of looked on the night as a favour to them and to my old drummer.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I knew nothing about the band, or the headliners, The Real McKenzies and was a little dubious as to whether I would enjoy the experience.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As always, I did my research.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I like to give a band 100% and to do them justice, I will turn up knowing the band’s music, their history, their individual names, what they look like, what they had for breakfast and be ready for any signature moves. If the opportunity arises, I like to have a chat with the band members before the show and build up a rapport and trust.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">All the guys (and gals) in both bands were very friendly.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It transpired that Roughneck Riot and myself share a few close mutual friends as they are from or around my home town before I relocated to Scotland 10 years ago.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Drummonds is a great live venue, although the lighting is a nightmare (virtually non existent) against a black painted and untidy stage backdrop. It is one of the only venues I know where flash is permitted, if not essential.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Flash can kill a live music image, but I find that if you dial the power right down to just ‘tickle’ a little light into the scene, it can help create a great image under poor conditions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On to the show…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I can’t even remember the name of the first band on-stage, they left me totally un-impressed, both musically and visually.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As an audience member and a photographer, I prefer bands that hone their stagecraft and entertain their audience. Yes, the music is foremost, but I’m left cold by shoe gazers who make no effort to engage their audience. The void in front of the stage, empty of audience said it all really, as did the lack of applause. I normally photograph all of the support bands, but I gave this one a miss and went outside for a cigarette with some of the musicians.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Next on was Billy Liar from Glasgow, who I have worked with before and consider a friend. Solo punks with acoustic guitar don’t normally do anything for me, but Billy has it nailed. He looks the part, writes great, clever songs and delivers them with passion and energy. The Aberdeen punk troops lined the edge of the stage for his performance and they and Billy fed off each other.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Billy and myself popped out into the dark Belmont Street before his set for an impromptu portrait session, and considering that all I had to work with was a single on-camera flash, we were very pleased with the results.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a short interval, The Roughneck Riot took to the stage and what a show they put on! Their music is Irish/Celtic punk (think The Pogues/Dropkick Murphys), which was well received by the audience.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This band has obviously made a conscious effort to work on their stagecraft and I was fed with opportunities for great action images from the moment they walked on stage until the moment they left it.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Every band member was a joy to watch, and I could photograph Caitlin, their banjo player all night!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Real McKenzies kept the party going and again were a joy to photograph.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">They were in the middle of their European tour from their native Vancouver and were on top form. Again, very friendly guys…a simple email resulted in a reply from their manager, Randy Stifes with permission. It turned out that Randy doubles as their sound guy and was there on the night and destroyed my image of him being a suit behind a desk somewhere in Vancouver. I thought it only right I should throw in a shot of a kilted Randy at the desk…thanks again. Randy!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was a serious mosh pit going down half way into their set, so I found myself at one point standing on a pool table for some long shots and getting in the middle of it for some audience shots.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I came away from the night exhilarated and with a large number of images I was very pleased with. Billy, Roughneck and the Real McKenzies were all pleased with the results too.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Real McKenzies have set up <a href="http://www.realmckenzies.com/Image_Galleries/Pages/Aberdeen,_Scotland_Jan_25,_2011_Camerastageleft.html">a gallery</a> on their website from the night.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Roughneck Riot will be returning in July for the Slaughterfest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I will be there, and will be wearing my Roughneck t-shirt, courtesy of the band!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://theroughneckriot.com/">The Roughneck Riot official website</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="http://www.realmckenzies.com/Welcome.html">The Real McKenzies official website</a> </span></div>CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-36190320624996302342011-01-31T00:01:00.002+00:002011-02-06T09:39:08.791+00:00The bitter sweet taste of successJust over a week ago, I got quite a shock when checking my email.<br />
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I learned that I had won the Pop Cop 'Best Scottish Music Photo 2010'<br />
The competition was judged by legendary Scottish born photo journalist <a href="http://www.harrybenson.com/">Harry Benson</a><br />
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Harry Benson arrived in America with The Beatles in 1964.<br />
He has photographed every U.S president from Eisenhower to Obama, was just feet away from Bobby Kennedy the night he was asassinated, in the room with Richard Nixon the night he resigned, on the Meredith march with Martin Luther King, the list goes on.<br />
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It was quite a daunting thought to think that such a respected peer had let alone cast his eye over one of my images, but chosen it as the winner.<br />
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I have won competitions before, in a different genre of photography, but didn't feel anywhere ready to enter one in this genre as I am still very much the apprentice.<br />
A friend suggested I enter, so I picked my two images to submit and thought nothing more of it, not expecting any chance of winning.<br />
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I will always remember learning that to win a competition, you should study what the judges are looking for...how they tick and what pushes their buttons.<br />
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I studied previous winning entries and gained as much information as I could about Harry Benson.<br />
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I knew I should enter an image that captures the essence of a gig and include the band and audience.<br />
I chose an image of Sham 69, taken at Drummonds, Aberdeen.<br />
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I had bagged the safe shots and as the crowd started to strip off their shirts and surge to the front of the stage, I decided to get in the middle of them and capture some images with more of a 'reportage' or photo journalistic feel.<br />
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In between the jostling and pushing, I captured a few frames, and in the case of the winning entry, I decided to make the focus point on the audience members in front of me, and at f/2.8 I blurred the faces of the two key members of Sham 69, with their heads appearing in the gaps between raised arms in the audience.<br />
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I remember this particular image resonating with me as I reviewed them for editing.<br />
It wasn't the normal type of image you would see alongside a concert review, I broke the rules.<br />
I don't work for a publication so rules are fair game, I'm my own picture editor.<br />
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I suspect this is what resonated with Harry Benson also.<br />
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A couple of days after the email, the post and announcement was up on the Pop Cop site.<br />
In all honesty, I was horrified when I saw the standard of the joint second, 4th place and honourable mention images. The standard was very high and I immediately thought 'What is Harry thinking?'<br />
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To make matters worse, there were some extremely scathing comments below the post.<br />
Some of the runners up were gracious on their websites/blogs (although a couple weren't quite as complimentary on their Twitter feeds...the internet is a small place!)<br />
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I went to bed that night in total despair and in a deep depression, my self confidence smashed and questioning my own judgement.<br />
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Although, I don't think the image deserved some of the extreme verbal assaults, I don't think it was a particularly strong image. (In the last week alone, I've captured scores of interaction images that would have blown it out of the water and I would have stood my ground against anyone that criticised them)<br />
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I'll probably never get to know what was in the mind of the judge...maybe it was the 'get in the middle of it/whatever the other photographers are doing, go in the opposite direction' ethos he is famed for.<br />
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The Sham 69 image isn't about spectacular lighting rigs or how famous the band are, it's an honest image taken in the thick of the action, from an audience perspective, with the audience the main subject.<br />
The band were deliberately indistinguishable.<br />
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If I were judging the competition, I would have picked any of the featured entries but mine, but at the end of the day, I abode by the rules and won it fairly.<br />
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The competition came with some very nice prizes...a £50 voucher to spend at Park Cameras and weekend guest list/photo passes to the Belladrum and Loopallu Festivals in August/September 2011.<br />
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Finally, here is is the image that has caused me so much grief over the last week:.<br />
PS: Sham 69 liked it, and at the end of the day, my clients are the only ones I have to please ;-)<br />
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Thanks to Jason at <a href="http://thepopcop.co.uk/">PopCop</a> for running the competition and to <a href="http://www.harrybenson.com/">Harry Benson</a> for judging the entries.<br />
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<div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">PhotoRec<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.</span></span></i></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">PhotoRec is free - this open source multi-platform application is distributed under<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">GNU General Public License<span style="color: black;">. PhotoRec is a companion program to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>TestDisk, an app for recovering lost partitions on a wide variety of file systems and making non-bootable disks bootable again. </span></span></i></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">You can download them from </span></i><a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download</span></i></a></div><div style="line-height: 18.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 4.8pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">For more safety, PhotoRec uses read-only access to handle the drive or memory card you are about to recover lost data from.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal">Last weekend I carried out a portrait shoot using my 8 GB Sandisk Ultra II CF card.<br />
I’d started to notice strange things happening a couple of months beforehand.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Having got home from a concert shoot and inserting the disk into my PC’s integral card reader, I was greeted with the message ‘This device is not formatted…do you want to format it now?’</div><div class="MsoNormal">Erm…NO!</div><div class="MsoNormal">I re-inserted the card into my camera and could view all of the images.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I tried again in the PC card reader… same problem.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Tried on my backup PC and it worked fine.</div><div class="MsoNormal">OK, it seems I have a faulty card reader.</div><div class="MsoNormal">This happened a couple of times on other shoots, and the card always read in my backup PC.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Occasionally, it worked in my main PC… until last weekend.</div><div class="MsoNormal">To make matters worse and to cause me to break out in a cold sweat, the card no longer read on the backup PC, displaying the same formatting message.</div><div class="MsoNormal">To my horror, it gave me the same message when I checked the card back in the camera.</div><div class="MsoNormal">It turns out I had a corrupted disk. This was probably caused by not ejecting the card correctly from the PC’s card reader.</div> <br />
<div class="MsoNormal">After falling into the usual trap of downloading the promising freeware/shareware applications that taunt you with how many files they can recover, but only if you pay for the full version, I stumbled across this beauty of a free, open source application.</div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Not only did it rescue all my valuable lost images, it recovered images from the previous three shoots, even though a number of them were deleted on-camera at time of shooting and the card had been completely formatted in-camera a number of times.</div><div class="MsoNormal">As the official blurb says <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘</i><span class="apple-style-span"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.’</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">My card ticked all the boxes!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">The whole process took less than 20 minutes on an 8 GB card and gave me back the files in their original Canon RAW .CR2 format.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">I’ve since tried it on other cards and recovered full shoots from formatted cards including images I remember deleting on-camera.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">A sheer piece of genius if you ask me, and an absolute lifesaver.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">I’ve detailed the process steps below with screen grabs, using a working but formatted card, so some of the information will look a little different to a totally Fubar’ed card.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Step 1:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Download the TestDisk/PhotoRec app for your operating system here: </span></span><a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download</span></i></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">(You can download the full documentation from the site too)</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Step 2:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The app is compressed as a .zip file, so you will need to unzip it:</span></div><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">Click through the testdisk-6.11.3.win folder (or equivalent for your operating system) until you see photorec_win.exe or equivalent.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">In the Windows version, this is located in the sub folder named ‘win’</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Step 3:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">Click on the photorec_win.exe application to launch it.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">The first DOS screen prompts you to select the correct media disk, in this case ‘Generic USB CF Reader’. Use the up/down arrows on your keyboard to select, then press Enter to proceed:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Step 4:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">Next, select the partition table type (in the case of Windows, Intel/PC partition)</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">Again, use the up/down arrows and Enter key:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Step 5:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">Next, select the partition. In the example shown, this is the FAT32 LBA partition labelled </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">[EOS DIGITAL] and press Enter to start the file recovery process:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Step 6:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">To recover lost files, PhotoRec needs to know the file system type where the files were stored. </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">In this case, ‘FAT’</div><br />
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Step 7:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">You now have two choices: to extract the files from free/unallocated space or from the whole partition. I would usually choose ‘whole partition’:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Step 8:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">The next screen chooses a default download location for the extracted files (make a note of it!)</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">If you are happy with the default location and don’t want to change it, enter ‘Y’ for Yes:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Step 9:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">You will now see a progress screen. An 8 GB CF card took around 15-20 minutes:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Step 10:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">On completion, you will be able to view how many files were recovered and the location that PhotoRec has saved them to:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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In this case, within the ‘win’ folder, PhotoRec created a folder called ‘recup_dir.1’</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">Depending on the size of the card and number of found files, there may be a number of folders; </div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">‘recup_dir.1’ - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘recup_dir.2’ etc.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">Below, you can see the retrieved Canon RAW .cr2 files in the ‘recup_dir.1’ folder:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Below is a screen grab of Adobe Lightroom displaying a few of the rescued Canon CR2 image files:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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In summary, PhotoRec will help if you have a memory card with a severely damaged partition, if you accidentally formatted a card, or accidentally deleted an image.</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal">There are some simple steps you can take to prevent card corruption:</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">1. Always format the card in your camera, not on your PC or Mac.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">2. Always ensure the camera power is off before inserting the card.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">3. Never remove the card from the camera when it still reading/writing (usually accompanied by a ‘busy’ L.E.D).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">4. Never remove the card from your PC or Mac card reader when it is still reading/writing.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;">5. Always use the correct ‘EJECT’ procedure before removing the card from your PC or Mac.<br />
6. Never play with memory cards when extremely drunk.<br />
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</span></span></span></div>CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-34278138390443929432011-01-09T12:17:00.002+00:002011-01-09T12:18:38.770+00:00Bad day at work? Read on...<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Bob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103 .5 on FM dial in Indiana, who was sponsoring a 'worst job experience' contest. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Needless to say, she won. Read his letter below:</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Hi Sue,</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother..</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Last week I had a bad day at the office.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif";"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">So, of course, I scratched it.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">This only made things worse. Within a few seconds my ass started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it, however, the crack of my arse was not as fortunate..</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my arse.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Needless to say, I aborted the dive.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't shit for two days because my arse was swollen shut.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your arse.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day? </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">I've been asked several times during 2010 about how I manage to get relatively clean and sharp images under atrocious lighting conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Noise reduction techniques obviously come into play, but my 'secret' weapon is High Pass sharpening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Follow the linky to <a href="http://www.camerastageleft.com/articles/hipasssharpening.pdf">download the PDF article</a> and learn how to turn this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></strong>CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-39484623949353772412010-11-23T22:20:00.000+00:002010-11-23T22:20:22.060+00:00PeteRayBiggin.comPete Ray Biggin has just launched his new website at <a href="http://www.peteraybiggin.com/">peteraybiggin.com</a> designed and maintained by Las Vegas based fellow concert photographer <a href="http://www.patflanagan.com/">Pat Flanagan</a><br />
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Pete is an awesome drummer who has it all nailed...power, technique, groove, feel and passion.<br />
He is known for his work with Mark Ronson, Amy Whitehouse and Incognito and joined Level 42 this Autumn on their 30th Anniversary tour.<br />
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Pete was stepping into big shoes following Phil Gould and Gary Husband, but brought a new dimension to the band and did an incredible job. Pete was a Level 42 fan from an early age and at the age of Eleven, got to play Gary's drums during the soundcheck, making a lasting impression.<br />
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When Gary Husband had to step down this year due to other commitments, Pete got the phone call!<br />
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Pete's new website has sections with news, bio, giglists, photos/video/audio from Incognito, Level 42, his own band The PB Underground and other solo projects featuring video clips with Mark Ronson and Amy Whitehouse and a forum where you can interact with Pete.<br />
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I am pleased to have nine of my images featured in the Photos section in the Level 42 galleries from the Aberdeen show here: <a href="http://www.peteraybiggin.com/photos/level-42/?album=2&gallery=9">http://www.peteraybiggin.com/photos/level-42/?album=2&gallery=9</a><br />
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Go and check the website out and if you get the opportunity, get along to a gig to check out Pete's playing...you won't be dissapointed!<br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Dave Parsons is still there on axe duties from the original line up, with Ian Whitewood on drums from the Pursey line up.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Bass duties are now in the hands of Al Campbell who toured extensively with the UK Subs.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">Sham 69 were there from the start.</span></span></div></div><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">As the ‘intellectual' punk bands began to wane, the ‘Oi’ movement, more in touch with the working class lads on the street took over the baton.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;">There were three of us photographing the band and no photo pit, but we all worked around each other well, despite the relatively narrow stage.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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</div>CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-14434639033436539842010-10-10T19:42:00.001+01:002010-10-10T19:44:09.226+01:00Level 42 30th Anniversary Tour - Music Hall AberdeenI had the honour of photographing my favourite band, Level 42 from the pit on 4th October as part of their 30th Anniversary tour at The Music Hall Aberdeen.<br />
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Mark King authorised the pass via his tour manager, Kevin Hopwood (Kylie Minogue/Mark Knopler)<br />
I shot the first three songs from the photo pit, then Kevin kindly let me shoot the rest of the show from the auditorium, where most of the better shots came from)<br />
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Pete Ray Biggin (Incognito/Amy Whitehouse) joined the tour to take over drumming duties from Gary Husband, who was double booked with John McLaughlin.<br />
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The lighting and backdrop was a joy to work with and I got a large number of keepers.<br />
A special feature of the show, which wasn't included in the U.S leg of the tour was Mark, Mike and Nathan doing a roto-tom drum solo during '43'.<br />
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I also got to cover the entire set of the support band, The Mighty Mo, featuring another highly respected bass player Yolanda Charles and was able to supply her with a good set of images.<br />
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I was shooting for http://www.forevernow.com run by Carl Mueller and the images are up on the site now.<br />
Mark King is getting the hi resolution print images and Morgan Roussell, webmaster at the offical Level 42 site has been in touch regarding adding them there.<br />
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My Facebook page and email inbox has gone nuts since publishing the images as I have a couple of the band members as friends. 30 years on and there's still a lot of love out there for this band!<br />
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Here are some of my favourite images from the night. (click on the images for a larger view)<br />
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Support is from Deep Mo, featuring Yolanda Charles on bass, another fine player.<br />
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I'll be covering the first 3 songs for www.forevernow.com<br />
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Pictures to come in a couple of weeks!CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4695582577773567598.post-20533883983760482112010-09-19T13:35:00.001+01:002010-09-19T13:36:26.215+01:00Maxwells DeadHad a fun shoot with Maxwells Dead a couple of weekends ago around my home town of Montrose.<br />
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Maxwells Dead are a Ska/Punk band based locally and are managed by Punklett Promotions.<br />
I was hired by their Manager to produce images for a press pack.<br />
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Here are a three of the images from the session: (click on the images for a larger view)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was rummaging through a few folders during my recent archiving exercise and had forgotten about a self portrait session I did last year.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is one of the images featuring my well gigged Warwick Fortress 5 string.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I had this bass custom made (I'm a Southpaw) in Germany and features gold hardware and MEC pickups.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The lighting was a simple daylight balanced static lamp through a softbox, above and camera left, set back to increase light fall-off.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The majority of the effect was achieved in post-processing with a dark vignette added in Lightroom 3.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">One of the regrets from my 25 years on the road as a bassist is a lack of photographic memories, which is kind of why I like providing musicians with images to keep forever.</span></span>CameraStageLefthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364876501177074637noreply@blogger.com0