Night of Louisiana

Look, I'm busy. I totally neglected the heck out of this blog. I seldom get time to study let alone do blog stuff on the side. I'll try harder from now on.

Sometimes it's nice to work for a newspaper just for the chance to go to interesting events. I saw an event in a newspaper article that caught my interest and gladly I was able to volunteer for the event for coverage. This got me in for free. I didn't have to pay the $20 entry fee for this concert. It's also nice that I got to use it for class credit as a class assignment.

Basically what you have is a big Zydeco blues concert on my college campus and I wanted to give a general idea of what it was like through my pictures. As it was a concert, I made an audio slideshow out of it so that it incorporated the sound and sight of the event. I also interviewed the person who founded the event.

I'm hoping to figure out how to host this slideshow so I can at the least link to it so that it can be online somewhere. We'll see how well that goes.

Until then, here are a bunch of images to tide you over.

Much of the dancing photos were taken at very low shutter speeds. We're talking in the 1/4 of a second area. I used a flash attatched to my camera by a TTL cord and held it off to the side.

This gave me the neat streaky affect that you see around the dancers.

I was lucky enough to get to be let up on stage to take a few pictures. However, I don't take very great band photos.

This is probably the photo that made the night. I just followed this couple as they rounded the dance floor and shot away whenever they were facing me. Sometimes you get some awesome shots if you just shoot like crazy.

The only thing I don't like is that their faces are just slightly ghosted by the long exposure.

The dance photos were taken with my super wide lens too. This let me get really close to the dancers and made them the main focus. Also if I wasn't exactly focused right on their faces, the image wouldn't be too bad because the wide lens keeps a pretty large focal depth.

In the scope of things I like shooting low light stuff with flash, but I hate being intrusive and throwing a big pop of light in there. It is always so distracting to the people in the photo. It's hard to get a candid shot if they're totally focused on the guy holding the camera and flash.