Brass Mantis

About a month ago, Ryan (my husband) and I were invited to a live music show at a local bar called The Circus Room. We packed up a couple of DSLRs (D60 and D40), a flash, 2 lenses (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 and 50mm f/1.8) and headed out to shoot in possibly the worst conditions avaialable.

The bar was dark (as most bars are), the stage area was very small and contained by walls that were covered in different coloured paints and random decorative items such as a guitar that kept interfering with good shots. They also used fog.

The guitar on the wall:


There was some luck to be had with the downstairs having more conisistently coloured walls, so I did some headshots down there before the show started.



The last of the above photos was actually shot next to the stage after the show.

In a way, I'm glad that we had a chance to shoot in such non-ideal conditions. It gave us some great experience working with very little and still coming up with some good shots. I was contacted for some prints of some of the photos of this show and yesterday delivered the finished product. They were quite happy with them and have actually mentioned possibly using us for photography in the future.

Here are some of my performance shots:


If you would like to see more of my photos from this show, just click on any of the photos in this post. You will be brought to the photo on Flickr where you can easily view my Brass Mantis set.