Heavens Basement – One of my favourite bands ever! So glad I got to photograph these guys, a huge thank you to Heavens Basements Drummer Chris for getting me the photo pass. I saw these guys years ago when they were touring with Thunder and the just changed their name to Roadstar from Hurricane Party.  We later found out when they done a gig at The End bar in Newcastle that the name changes were due to management issues.  Despite all the behind the scenes drama this band never fail to disappoint and they keep on doing what they do best.

The lighting at this gig was not amazing although if i could have knocked the iso higher than 1600 i may have been able to pull more through. My poor camera is on its last legs the shutter is continuously jamming and im missing shots that i should be able to get. None the less i keep pressing that button like a crazy bitch (my poor finger was hurting for days after loll) and manage to get some really cool but different shots to what i would normally go for.  The other big problem was that the press pit was at the side of the stage, Chris the Drummer was lit beautifully but from where we were the rest of the band were just back lit, although once i dawdled into the crowd afterwards the front looked really well lit. Fudgeicles!

Band photography is awesome for this reason, you don’t know what lighting you are going to get and in the space or 3 songs or 15minutes (whichever comes first)  you have to work out the lighting, your settings and get kick ass shots that your editor is going to love.

Iso 1600 f4-5.6 (could have done with my 50mmf1.8 that night must also invest in a 100mm f1.8 soon to). I really pushed the images during the post processing then smoothed it out with noise ninja and slapped a film grain on.  Film grain looks so much nicer than digital noise so this part of the processing is mainly due to a personal preference.  A few were put into black and white so i could push them even more. Im starting to think i should just shoot gigs in film haha  When i get my own place so i can have my own darkroom i think i might shoot every gig in film. <(*o*<)

Anyhoo onto the pics, The singer Richie was molested at this gig  <(T__T)> naughty audience giving us Geordie gals a bad name lol

www.heavensbasement.com

Glenns review and my photos will be viewable on www.inthepit.co.uk!  very soon !

I really do think Irfanview is plotting against my images especially the landscape ones :-S it seems to be making them really noisy?  boo hissss Irfanview >:- (

lol

Christine

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