Simon – Page 5 – Sloth Shots

2013-02-15

Azika & No Second Chances at The Crusader

Azika are good friends of mine so it was great to shoot them performing at The Crusader in Garforth, two fifths of No Second Chances in support and one of my favourite pictures taken here when the flash failed to go off on the second of two quickly successive shots (still in a recharge cycle) resulting in a flat black picture, not dark, just flat black jpg BUT opening the raw in Photoshop and a little tinkering later gave me the best shot of the year, the emotion expressed by the subject perfectly reflected in the way the shot turned out, I love it.

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2013-01-29

Esper Scout, Kassassin Street & British Racing Green at The Packhorse

Loved how happy stoned the lead from Kassassin Street was, yet seemingly unfazed by it he was in his performance, Esper Scout were as awesome as ever – difficult gig to shoot, telephoto from the back of the room for the most part, though still managed to capture two of my favourite band shots here:

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2013-01-04

Jonny B & The Goodes at The Cricketers Arms

My very first shoot, and by that, I mean I bought the camera that day and headed out to Keighley to shoot my best friends and favourite live band – might have got a little carried away with the Photoshop effects, which were all done in GIMP as at this point I hadn’t learnt Photoshop or shot in raw, yep, these are all jpegs straight from the camera which was set to auto for most of the night – amazing what you can do even when you don’t know what you’re doing!

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Even had a go at shooting some video (though, my arms did get tired / shaky!)