The Royal We

Wow, I can't believe that it's already October. Sorry for the lack of activity on the blog. I've been crazy busy with the whole PhD program and trying to get further on that. I'm hoping to get one piece of it sent out to collaborators soon. *crosses figures*

Alright. Enough about school. Here's a few shots of my fiance's band, The Royal We. They had a gig last Saturday and I thought it would be fun to try taking some pictures.

Well, it wasn't the easiest venue to photograph them. There wasn't much light so I had to use the flash (SB-400). But, I don't have a diffuser for it and the ceiling was a rich chocolate brown, which meant no bouncing of the flash. The guys weren't really back lit at all either. But here are the shots that I did get that I thought were decent.














Here are the guys setting up. JP on the guitar, Aaron on bass and Rich on drums.
I was having a hard time getting them together in one shot. And when I did... I got this....














I'm not too crazy about the fact you can hardly make out Rich in the background.













There was a window back where he was, so I could get that one. :-)
But, I didn't get too many shots of them while playing. Plus it's the first gig that I attended so I really wanted to hear more of their songs rather than take photos. And with the amount of difficulty I was having getting shots, I just wanted to have fun dancing along to the music.



Towards the end of the night I tried having some fun with the camera and using a slow shutter and the few things of light around them to see what I could get. This was probably my best shot.