The Rogue Traders
This a set of 12 photographs, taken on 23 June Saturday night at The Rogues, along Market Street. The band is having a farewell party for their lead guitarist, Chris. Chris is leaving the band and will be travelling aound the world. Perhaps taking a break from work and music. I was fortunate to be invited to their party that night and to take pictures for them.
Hope you like the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them. Pleasant viewing. Oh yes! IF you have comments, please do kindly leave them or write me a message in the Shoutmix tagboard. Thank you.
All photographs are taken with a Nikon D70s on Tamron 17-35mm f/2.8-4 lens, with SB-800 flashlight. All color photographs are converted to black & white in Photoshop.
Chris & Pamela
Chris & Simon
Chris on solo
Mark & Simon
Miles & Mark
Miles
Renze
Sean in action
hi martin
ReplyDeletei feel those photo with 2 person, the "weightage" of the person in the background should be significant as in "chris & pamela", else it distract the viewers attention as in "chris & simon".
also, dslr with crop factor has a depper dof than film with same angle of coverage (film 38mm compare to 24mm in dslr). it is even better with compact digital, unfortunately, fuji10-f31d series does not come with manual mode, else it is the ultimate lean mean killing machine for shooting performance in close range.
Thanks for yr kind comments, Dennis. Greatly appreciated.
ReplyDeleteWell I'm kinda agreed with you on the point of "weightage", should I say the overall composition. Well based on the time of taking the photographs, with limited space for me to move around, I have to show what appears in the frame. if I extract the main subject on the foreground, it wouldn't look natural and real, not to mention the band couldn't afford a set of stage lights. It cost them more than $600 per night, which they think it ain't worthy. So I had to use my SB-800 flashlight.
In the end, it was the process of making the photographs that's fun and I'm still quite happy with the results, even though some were copped into a new photographs, if you observe closely.