Good way to put the morning’s alcohol connected recovery to use,  I’ve done a first pass of last night’s Infest photos. It’s been all change this year with the venue, so the stage is in a different place and is a slight different shape this year, but I like it so far (at least for photos, as I’ve not really watched a band except through a viewfinder yet :))

Going to take me a while to get them all up (2 more nights , and I’m taking film shots as well) so thought I’d start with some work in progress ones.

So in this batch there’s 1 for Mandro1d, 1 for De/Vision and one for the Infest legend that is it’s compere Tails

Right, 2 hours till the next Infest band. But going via the Love Music Hate racism gathering that’s going on behind our hotel

Been a while since I’ve seen Screaming Banshee Aircrew play (last time may well have been supporting The March Violets a couple of years ago (Pictures). There appear to have been some lineup changes (I’m sure I remember more than 4 in the band?) and a change in sound. There definitely seems to be a bit more of an edge to their sound these days. But it still sounds good, or at least as good as it can through ear plugs 12″ from the PA (my fault not theirs).

Took the EOS 30D out for a play as well for a bit of a change, so there’s some colour this time.

Black and white pictures take on a Canon EOS 3 on Ilford HP5+ @ 1600, some with flash, some without.

Well Infest is back on this year, and looking forward to it. Though for a bit of blatant self-promotion I thought I’d just mention that I did the promo shots for this year – http://infestuk.com/press.html. And the kind organisers have agreed to let me DJ on the Friday night on the 2nd floor, so I didn’t annoy too many people when I DJed in 2008 then :).

An old tiger skin rug in the main entrance hall to the National Trust’s Kedleston hall. And as a nice easter treat someone’s given it a little chick to eat (not me!, though I am impressed by the NT’s staffs thinking :))

And nothing says spring like Daffodils

All images take with a Canon EOS 30D and a Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 DX.  Minimal tarting done during RAW conversion.

So buying a film camera was the start of a slippery slope. I’m really enjoying the relative simplicity of it, and the hands on developing technique and the lack of pressure to photoshop it 7 ways to sunday to get it to look right.

But, I’m starting to crave more cameras. After some frustration while trying to take photos of Twilight’s Embrace and Sorrow’s Fall at the old Angel last Friday I’m really craving a film body with a much better AF system. And having seen some of the interesting metering decision the 300 makes I think I’d like  a better set of metering options. So I think I’m going to be on the lookout for a 30 or a 3 in the very near future.

And for something slightly more obscure I really have a hankering for a 120 film based pinhole of some sorts. I just see things that would good in a nice wide format and the slightly more contemplative mood appeals as well. So need to start thinking about whether I want something fancy, a holga or go the whole hog and build one from some nice offcuts of wood.

Though I’ve got to admit it was fun at the weekend to breakout the 30D at Kedleston hall. Though that might just have been using a better camera, which only makes me want a 3/30 that little bit more :).

Now these were a fun band to watch. Full on medieval garb, swords being swung and goblets of blood being drunk. I seem to remember some ‘vomiting’ of blood, but thankfully the camera was kept far enough out of reach :)

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