{"id":1039,"date":"2014-05-08T14:27:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2014-05-08T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:27:47","slug":"bank-holiday-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/08\/bank-holiday-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Holiday Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another bank holiday has passed us by and I got the opportunity to give my camera a rare outing.<\/p>\n<p>A local band, &#8220;Kellys Heros&#8221; was playing in the East Kent Pub, just round the corner from where I am now living, So I figure this would be an ideal excuse to remind myself of just how dreadful my low light photography skills are.<\/p>\n<p>I took my camera along with Flash unit down to the pub and quickly discovered a number of things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pub band lighting is terrible<\/li>\n<li>Flash guns are an annoying intrusion for the band, the punters and the pub staff.<\/li>\n<li>The balance of working in low light, without a flash means that If you want to capture the band bouncing around the stage, then you are going to have to expect noise (High ISO) and poor colour reproduction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The end result of the above is that my weekend project as resulted in a set of high contrast, grainy black and white photos. Thankfully I quite like the effect. but it would be nice to occasionally take photos of a band in colour.<\/p>\n<p>So how do I improve for the future? The options are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy faster glass (side angle lens with low aperture), which I can&#8217;t afford<\/li>\n<li>Buy a full frame body which has better low light handling. If someone would like to buy me the new Sony A7r or A7s Cameras that would be lovely, thank you.<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to use a flash without upsetting everyone, or getting self conscious \/ embarrassed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will be buying a loto ticket this weekend and when I fail to win again, I&#8217;ll probably get the camera out and continue to practice.. Until I either get it right, or get lucky!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another bank holiday has passed us by and I got the opportunity to give my camera a rare outing. A local band, &#8220;Kellys Heros&#8221; was playing in the East Kent Pub, just round the corner from where I am now living, So I figure this would be an ideal excuse to remind myself of just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5],"tags":[9,16,21,28,69,78,81,82,83,84,98,109,113],"class_list":["post-1039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fps","category-mylife","category-photography","tag-a65","tag-band-2","tag-beginner","tag-technique","tag-lighting-2","tag-people","tag-photo","tag-photography-2","tag-photos","tag-pictures","tag-sony","tag-uk","tag-whitstable-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC05214-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philpriston.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}