A bit of digital housekeeping and I came across this over processed mess, but it reminded me of a horrible bit of Australian history.
So yeah, butchered it, but it had meaning and it made me sad and angry, so I recorded it... Anyway, don't leave with a bad taste in your mouth - here's a great version of the song by Bernard.
Anyways... Happy days
Sol posted a link up from her photographing The Stranglers, and it reminded me of when I photographed them back in March 2010. To say I miss music photography would be a sizeable understatement. It was "good times" though, I don't know that I'd go back to it - we shall see, I'm not dead yet.
I wanted to share some photographs from the stranglers gig, it was green & red special, so it's a set of black and whites I've not put online before... Maybe hit play on tape while you look at them?
It's interesting... I remember this night, it was Hammersmith Apollo in London, I was working a little late, Dave and I were still in the office (That's a blurry photo of Dave from before this gig) and I wasn't going to go shoot - I'd kinda hit a shooting gigs wall and you can see that in the photos.. No angle changes, no creativity... boring as ****
I had to go because I have always loved Golden Brown (La Folie, 1981) - great, he loves a song about heroin and a woman, both of which provided Hugh with an amount of pleasure. Well, no, I just love the song, anyway... I went, shot a bit (197 frames Canon 5DMk2)
This is Dave, say hi Dave...
Maybe I miss music photograph more than I think, or just live music, or just...
I've always enjoyed playing with Lego. This was a scene I spied earlier this week, a pipe exploded and the team were hard at work putting things right...
A small disaster...
Lit with two Lumecube, steam courtesy of my coffee machine, just out of shot on the left...
I've been following this new (to me) website called #MassDrop that gets together a bulk buy and offers gear at reduced rates - because who doesn't love reduced rates? Anyways, I'm in the market for a new pair of headphones after my much loved Denon's decided enough was indeed enough... I've come up with four drops that you might like to take part in, sharing...
I think I'm going to go with the Sony MDR-Z7 ($539 from $700) - http://dro.ps/b/jpM12TT
But before we get into the pairs that I’ve looked at, below, here’s a good review of the Beyerdynamic DT 880 Pro by Alex at Consordini who asked if I’d share his video, and it’s good, so I did :)
And now, on with the story…
Though at this price, the Fostex are very very tempting... $449 down from a cool $1000 - The special #purpleheart model. http://dro.ps/b/TiC12TT
I think the Beyerdynamic DT880 would be third on my list - http://dro.ps/b/TDq12TT $249 at the moment, typically $400'ish
And last but by no means least, the EMU Walnut cans, has anyone tried these? $299 down to a cool hundred bucks... http://dro.ps/b/KAs12TT
Anyways, some nice headphones and some good savings - there's a stack of stuff on Massdrop from socks to keyboards to RC trucks to... well, go have a look CLICK
Looking at my "lens path" which is a mythical path towards the ideal set of camera lenses that i want / need (want) and I see it has changed very much since my more serious involvement in photography.
I was once all about the Canon 16-35, 24-70 and 70-200 and those three served me perfectly. I had the trilogy and I had a couple of extras, the f/1.8 Canon 85mm as well as the 100mm f/2.8 Macro, also Canon, then along came Sigma with their Art series and I found myself buying the 35mm f/1.4 (Brilliant lens!) for my brother's wedding, and then by some luck, I ended up with the 50mm f/1.4 - both stunning lenses.
Then something happened that also happened to a lot of others - I switched out to Sony.
It started with the Sony a7, that's gone now and I have an a7Mk2 and an a7RMk2, both stunning cameras, but this has actually led me to a different style of shooting - I find myself more measured and sticking with primes almost 100% of the time... I use the Sony 55mm f/1.8 a lot, I have a 35mm f/1.4 Distagon which is pretty much always on my camera... I've kept the 16-35 and the 100mm Canon lenses and will do so for a good while - I use them with a Metabones or Vizelux adaptor.
BUT I've lost (read: sold) my 85mm Canon and I'm in the market for a great portrait lens, something a little longer. The G Master series is getting some amazing write ups and comment online, but it's a pretty expensive little beast! That said, I'm almost toying with selling the a7Mk2 and getting the 85mm... Not sure, torn, what would you do? I use the a7Mk2 infrequently, it's my spare - so to speak - but then, as I shoot for money so infrequently, I'm not sure I need it. The two body thing is a hangover from shooting music - one body with long, one body with wide.
Time will tell!
http://amzn.to/1nuSoVB <--- That's the lens I'm thinking of getting.
