Band Photography

Band Photography

Here are some of my favourite photos from some recent gigs. I will also be taking photos of Electric Soup soon because Electric Soup are playing with the James Taylor Quartet at the end of May!

TSP

Electric Soup

Dickie

TSP + Random

London Town one Saturday.

I should have spent more time on the last image, it looked even better to the naked eye, but I still like how it turned out.

TSP (Torino Sound Project) Gig Photos

I am now TSP‘s official photographer and here are some of the highlights of the photos from their last two gigs in London.

Day 57/365: “Tube Face”

“Tube Face”: the face which is most often made while on the tube or any other public transport in London. Eyes down reading, headphones on, work attire, unnatural light and the morning (or evening) sunlight coming through the window.

Strobist:
Using the ND filter again to get this one taken at f/2
Softbox camera close right
Snooted flash far right

Day 50!

Gaijin Chilli Miso Ramen

Day 49/365: Handle with …love.

Handle with ...love.

One of my favourite photos of my 365 day project so far. I need to use props and music as inspiration more often.

“Unpredictable fortune, my past, lights up my future, at last, ending my torture

Like gravity like love,
You get up after you fall
Like gravity like love
I’m not afraid any more” – ‘Gravity’ by Poets of the Fall

Cancelling hard drive format in Windows

I was formatting a USB external hard drive with NTFS (same thing would apply to FAT I believe). I unchecked quick format which meant it took an age on the large 750GB hard drive, so I thought I would cancel it. The drive was then not recognised my Windows (I am using Windows 7). So I thought I would use Linux to format the drive, put a new partition on it with fdisk or parted but Linux didn’t recognise it either!

I was getting worried now, I tried a different USB cable but to no avail. Finally I simply unplugged the power from the drive and put it back in again and Windows 7 recognised the drive and helpfully asked if I wanted to format it. Phew.

Let that be a lesson to anyone who reads this (or finds it using Google), don’t slow format a large drive with NTFS unless you can wait for a long time.

Video Conversion Software

Avidemux

After going from using Linux exclusively I have started to use Windows again and I wanted some software which was free and would do a few basic video editing and converting actions, such as joining files together than converting them to mpeg-4 avis. I first off tried “Any Video Converter”, which was ok, but fairly simple and I disliked it not being open source and having versions which cost money (what was I missing out on?).

After trying AVC I then remembered Avidemux a really great, free open source video conversion tool, you can get versions for windows and other OSs here on Avidemux download page.

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.

(From: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/)

365 Day: 21th Jan – Clone

My first clone photo. Didn’t turn out too bad, could be better thought. Will have to try some more during the course of the year.