What’s one of the most inconvenient minor injuries that you can get as a photographer? Not a question I’ve ever had to ask myself before, but the answer has to be ‘A scratched eyeball’.  I spent Monday with a sore, gritty, streaming right eye after doing heaven knows what to it some time between getting up and waking up (note to self: make tea before doing *anything else*). By the evening it was less painful, so Jase and I went to the Barfly to see Maccara as originally planned.

Ah, lighting, lighting, lighting.

It would be nice if small venues could reproduce the glorious lighting conditions of an Aerosmith gig, wouldn’t it? Observe:

OK, so there’s a limit to what you can fit in a pub…a girl can dream!

The Barfly currently has an LED lighting rig, which is a vast improvement on playing in darkness. The default lights are strip light-style LEDs, and when the first band played their set, they were bathed in hot pink light. Hot, glowing pink is not a stunningly good look for most people, so I decided that on this occasion I’d definitely need to shoot Raw in case I needed to play around with the white balance and saturation later.

The rig was switched on properly (thanks, Jase!) when Maccara were playing, and light was cycling through blue, cyan, green, pink and red, with occasional strobe. Dificult, but not impossible!
It was a strong set – to my shame I’m not that familiar with their material yet, but the set sounded good to these ears.

I’ll pop a link into this post when the photos are online…watch this space!