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Saturday, 3rd November 2012:<\/strong> The initial idea for this journal entry involved writing a real-time story, presenting the progression of an evening of utter idiocy, alcoholic indulgence and photographic luck. A scenario that gave the reader a sense they are living the moment along with the author.<\/p>\n

Sadly, I am not a good enough writer to achieve that, so instead, you are getting a Journal entry which describes the vague memories of a very drunken evening in Herne Bay, Kent, UK.<\/p>\n

A night of two halves.<\/h5>\n

I am lucky enough to have some awesome friends, one of these is a councillor in our neighbouring town Herne Bay. Jen E recently informed me that her events team organise a Zombie Crawl event each year; by luck, one of my oldest buddies, just happened to be gigging in a pub on route of said Zombie Crawl.<\/p>\n

The result? An extremely hung over and mildly confused Phil. The good news is that somewhere along the way; someone, possibly me, took a ton of photos. Some of them turned out OK, much to my surprise when I finally felt well enough to go through them.<\/p>\n

The Kit Bag<\/h5>\n

For those who care, the A65 and Tamrom 17-50mm f2.8 lens were my weapons of choice. This was also my first chance to play with a new Sony F43AM<\/a> flash gun.\u00a0Despite much reading, I’m not confident using a flash. I understand the concept of 2 exposures, and setting levels, but all the buttons on the back of the device, scare the hell out of me\u2026.I’m being honest here, don’t laugh.<\/p>\n

The Approach<\/h5>\n

All these things, plus admittedly a couple of beers before hand, resulted in the safe option. I was outdoors on the sea front, taking flash pictures of a procession ‘crawling’ past. The camera went into Auto+ mode and it did all the heavy lifting. I basically snapped photos as quick as the flash could recharge, trying my best to focus on composition, letting the camera worry about the exposure.<\/p>\n

The fact that this seems to have worked is probably due to Sony creating a very smart little camera. The auto settings did a good job, and it makes me happy I choose my camera over a Canon\/Nikon.\u00a0I should point out, in case it isn’t blatantly obvious; I’ve spent time plonking about in Lightroom, developing the Zombie shots. In the end, assistance came from a downloaded filter, provided by the very talented Lloyd K. Barnes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Once the Zombie crawl was finished, we moved on to a few well needed games of pool, a continuation of beer consumption, and of course, the highly anticipated rock frenzy that is\u2026.. KELLY’S HEROS. (You have to write that in capitals, apparently it’s the law.)\u00a0I took a slightly different approach to photographing these boys. While the Camera stayed in Auto mode, the flash got removed, the beer was increased and the fact that I have managed to salvage 10 shots out of around 150, is pure unadulterated luck\u2026..<\/p>\n

After the heavy colour processing of the Zombie photos, I wanted to go in a different direction on this set. Sadly, the lighting and ineptitude of the photographer, ruled out a pure, ‘out of the camera’ approach, so I decided to use some of the processes that I would normally apply to Street photography. \u00a0High contrast B&W was the final decision, and I am pretty happy with the result.<\/p>\n

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