Photography Scribblings

I feel a bit guilty for not posting here more often. Never has a webspace received so many hits for so little content. Huh. Guess the blog bots keep a more frequent schedule.

I’ve been reading portions of a book recommended by bassfingers entitled, Concert Photography and written by Jon Sievert. Of particular interest to me are the middle chapters in the book that deal with taking photographs in very low light situations.

I’m going to have to reread these chapters again before the next time I attend a con because specific recommendations are best learned by application but there seems to be quite a bit of solid advice within it. Once thing I notice in looking at the pictures reprinted in the book, though, is that I have an exaggerated sense of what I should be able to capture with my camera under those situations. I guess I’m looking to take portrait-like pics despite the surroundings. I’ll have to think about that.

I have only cursorily reviewed the other sections of the book. I’m not looking to become a music photographer and this book was written before the latest round of copyright law revisions that came into law in October 1998. What I saw of the former seemed like solid suggestions of common sense - though it often surprises at how uncommon common sense is - and the latter seemed reasonably correct.

I’m still playing with Photoshop Elements to see what I can tease out of the last round of photographs. I’ll probably get a picture or two of each participant, slap them up, and call it an expensive learning experience.

I’m still delving into the Coppermine Photo Gallery Software and support boards. For some reason, the support boards cause my copy of Mozilla to freeze and crash. Thus I rely on using IE *shudder* to read them and do not visit very often. I’m determined to figure out how to add small bits at the top of index pages, though, so I can link to related items such as con reports and other places on my site or the web related to the pics.

I have to get back to this church I went to for a performance about a month ago. Swear to gods, not making it up, but it’s a big, gold pyramid that looks like the worst goa’uld excesses. I kept looking around for the Pleasure Light.