This is one of the ladies of the Skinphony, the human orchestra.

This is the last of the shots I really like from White Mischief: From The Earth To The Moon. I might put a few more up here, because they’re not too bad, but this marks the end of the ones that I’m actually quite proud of, as opposed to ones I just think are OK…

(Although once again, a glance at the popularity of the various photos on flickr reveals my opinion of my own work to be drastically at variance with everyone else’s, so perhaps some of the one to come are better than I think.)

Kunta Kinte, from White Mischief. No clever commentary, as I’m just dashing out the door.

Another one from White Mischief.

The other shot of BSP from White Mischief that I like. Again, I wasn’t keen on it originally, but putting in into B&W improved it for me. By this point, I’m resigned to the fact that my gig photography isn’t likely to be saleable for a long time, if ever – my own taste runs to high contrast atmosphere stuff, which isn’t really what bands and magazines want, because well, I don’t give a toss about how clear their faces are, and that could be any bastard falling backwards into the crowd…

But it pleases me, anyway.

Last night, I hated this shot. Tonight, I have done a complete 180, and I really like it. It’s more or less the only acceptable shot I have of British Sea Power (a beat combo popular with the young folk of Britain), but it’s one of the gig shots I’m happiest with. I’ll add that this one looks better, bigger, so click through to see the original size on flickr. Even that’s only fractionally larger – I still won’t make anything bigger that 800 pixels wide available on-line, but it gives a slightly better idea.

I’ve got the original filling my screen, and I’m well happy (for a value of happy – I’d like him to be a bit clearer, and etc etc). I’ve actually got several versions, with different filters and colour effects applied, and I’m trying to decide which one to put on my portfolio site, but I thought I’d shot you the one that’s only been slightly tweaked, just to up the contrast a little, and make colours pop a bit more.

I was at White Mischief: From The Earth To The Moon Last Night – annoyingly, illness meant I had to leave early enough to be sure of getting the tube home, so I missed some of the more visually promising performers.

I got virtually nothing that I would consider printable, but I do have a few that will at least do for the web. This one has nothing to do with the event itself, but I like it. In fact, most of my favourites have nothing to do with the event, but I’ll do my best to overcome that, and post a few of the closer-to-acceptable ones, assuming I can get the permission of some of the people in them.

I’m sure I meant to blog this one, but I appear to have forgotten about it – it’s one of my favourites from the LRG bout the other month. It’s the motion blur on the arms that sells it to me…

One from the “not really acceptable” files – much to noisy and blurred, even at this tiny size, and the mic stand is dreadful composition, but I like the light coming down behind Larry Love (in white), and the comparison between D. Wayne and Larry. (From the Alabama 3 gig I went to the other week, taken with the t30, which explains the noise. One day, someone’s going to do a compact that opens up to f1.8, and on that day, I will rejoice, and hand over almost any sum of money they demand.)

OK, I’m no Marc Atkins, but still – I love taking photos of the light around the Thames. It’s not like anywhere else I know.

Another shot from the DLR – I like the lines and colours in this one, although I can’t shake the feeling that it the colour tone is slightly different on flickr compared to what I’ve got in in Lightroom. I know flcikr does a certain amount of auto-sharpening of uploads, but does anyone know if it messes with colour?