Relative Silence

As more and more venues seem to be moving to the lower wattage LED stage lights the little known problem of refresh rates rears it’s ugly head. As the LED lights in the panels refresh themselves you are sometimes left with strange things happening to your photos when you shoot below 1/250.
I am currently trying to research more into it, but I believe that the refresh rate in Australia is 240hz (240 times a second). This is far too fast for the human eye to see, but it then falls right into the firing line for the camera.

This shot below is in fact to the naked eye, lit completely with a purple wash. However as I was shooting at 1/640 I ran into the problem which as you will see, has made part of the image affected by the refresh rate completely black.

I’ve had a quick look at my calendar and upcoming gigs. Sadly I think this is going to affect my 52 week project, Wollongong only has so many bands and so many venues. Some of these venues I’m rapidly realising are not photographer friendly and as such I will only shoot there if absolutely necessary.

So I’m putting forward a change to the project. Instead of 52 weeks with a gig a week, I will now be doing 50 gigs. A favourite photo from each gig for the next 50 gigs.

To celebrate the change in the project here is the next image, A.K.A. 6/50.

6/50 Nirmal - The Sacred Truth

As a bonus to make up for me moving the goalposts, I’ve decided to upload my favourite crowd shots of the night.

Lord Fans

Third week of the project. This weeks photo was one of a friend Nathan, performing with his band “One Dark Day” at Hostage X Nightclub.
Nathan and bassist Byron are old friends of mine and Byron had been telling me that the band had no photos to use for promo material. Since I have become a resident photographer of sorts at Hostage I think this turned out to be a happy coincidence for both parties. I got to shoot a highly energetic live act and they got some pictures taken. Win!

The first time I’ve shot with lasers, and it happened to coincide with a scary as hell video that I had seen on Gizmodo.