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Cover Bands

Munster Terrace – May 23

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This was our first photoshoot of Munster Terrace playing at Beaches of Mornington.

These guys are all seasoned veterans, and it really showed in their slick performance of popular covers from the eighties.

Best of all they played some Angels and Deep Purple numbers, which were superbly executed, and thoroughly enjoyed by the enthusiastic crowd.

A full Flickr Gallery of Photos can be viewed here:

Flickr Photo Gallery of Munster Terrace Band May 23rd 2014

Further information about Single Income can be found at their Web Page:

Munster Terrace Website

 
 

EQUIPMENT:

Sony Alpha A-77 Camera
Tamron 24-70mm F2.8
Sony 35mm F1.8
Sony HVL-F43M Flash
Gary Fong Gamma Blade Diffuser
Panasonic Lumix LX7 Compact Camera

On this shoot I used the Lumix LX7 for the Non-Flash Shots of the Band with the crowd, and it is a great compact camera for low light.

However for the Band shots without flash I used the Sony F1.8 35mm Portrait Lens, and got some great shots of the drummer like the one shown at the beginning of this write up.

Flash Photography was done using a Gary Fong Blade Diffuser. It looks like a triangular cheese grater, but does a great job for Party People shots, and it is becoming my “Go To” diffuser.

I think the Blade type diffuser is slightly better than the Gary Fong Lightsphere Diffuser, but both do a great job on Party People shots.

This was a really fun shoot because there was a good crowd at the venue, and lots of people were jumping in straight away wanting their picture taken.

All shots were done with the A-77 in “M” fully manual mode, and the Sony Flash also in Manual Mode and set to “50mm” for flash beam width.

 

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Venue Photos

People at Beaches

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Everybody loves having their photo taken by Passy !

Currently Photos by Passy has ongoing work doing Venue Photos for Beaches of Mornington.

The brief is to get plenty of Party People pictures for the venue’s Facebook page, in between doing Band Photos.

Beaches is a nightlife venue in Melbourne, and has an older crowd who love to listen and dance to live music.

Most people are happy to have their photo taken, and many of them have a great eye for the camera, and require no posing, which makes getting the shots easy.

Where all the work is when the Photos are post-processed, and a lot of air brushing, and removal of background items and people is required. This is very time consuming, but the results and the thanks we receive from people next time we see them at the Venue makes it all worthwhile.

 

A full Flickr Gallery of Photos can be viewed at this link:

Flickr Photo Gallery of People at Beaches

 

If you find a photo you would like to download or save from the Beaches Flickr Album, then click on the following link for step by step instructions on how to do this.

How to Download and Save Photos from Flickr

 

Further information about Beaches can be found on their Website:

Beaches of Mornington Website

 

EQUIPMENT:

Sony Alpha A-77II
Sony 16-50mm SSM F2.8
Sony HVL-F43M Flash
Gary Fong Gamma Blade Diffuser

Adobe Photoshop CS 5.5

Party People shots are taken at ISO 800 to ISO 1600, with aperture priority used, so that aperture of 4.5 or 5.0 or 5.6 can be used for group shots to try and get everyone in focus. Individual or Groups of two shots are taken at an Aperture of F2.8 or slightly higher.

There is very time consuming post processing in Photoshop removing wrinkles, crows, feet, sunspots and freckles, as this is an older age venue, and flash is very unforgiving. In addition there are often photo bombers, or drunk people being very silly, who need to be blurred out or removed from the background of some photos.

 

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