2013.11.11 TEDxBRS 2013 Failure

2013.11.11 TEDxBRS 2013 Failure

Since joining the incredible team of volunteers behind TEDx Bristol last May, I ended up organising the stills team for the day and sourcing photographers.

The event in Colston Hall sold out and great fun was had by all. The topic of the talks was FAILURE. 

I covered mainstage from the balcony (only the stalls were filled with the 1000 delegates so I had plenty of room to run about).

Vicky Symons

was on speaker portraits, Kenneth Shaw covered audience photos and second MainStage camera.

Jamie Dunbar

was front of house and backstage to get a feel of the atmosphere. A really great team of cameras - looking forward to working with them again. I also got Jackson Kingsley from

Cinematica

involved to do backstage filming.

Shooting all day for this sort of event was tremendous fun, there were one or two more hairy talks for me where I changed lens about 5 times - but aside from a definite need now to go and save for a Canon 70-200 f2.8 IS to handle low light better, and dream of a newer sensor than in the 7D, I feel it went great.

As always cutting criticism and comments via email (tomglendinning.photography@gmail.com) or facebook, are hugely helpful and welcome.

If you don't like something then please, tell me - Also try to articulate why, it is tremendously useful to have constructive, critical feedback. You can view my full portfolio, contact and pricing information on my WEBSITE - tomglendinning.co.uk

Cantaloop @The Bell Inn Bath

I'm back to gig photography for the first time in a while for this post.

The gig was at

The Bell Inn in Bath

, always a great Wednesday night out - this time an entourage of 5th years and originals from archi course came too. Good fun had by all.

The excellent band was 'Cantaloop'.

See their website here.

As usual the band was happy for me to take some shots (I use the word 'some' in the loosest possible way), as I was doing the gig to benefit my own portfolio anyway.

I have been having fun with my new 7D and it was good to try out the sensor in some difficult low light conditions and see how it compares with previous cameras.

I think it is much better..

However difficult to judge because I am pretty sure the lighting at the Bell has got worse, or darker at least. I was ramped up at ISO 2000 for the most part firing at f/1.8 on the OM 50mm.(However, nice to note how much my high speed manual focussing accuracy has improved with practice) 

I found 2.8 on my other lenses just wasn't cutting it, and you just don't use flash at a gig.

Griping over: It's about the atmosphere with these shoots anyway. Tell me how you think I did.

As usual you also can view the set on Flickr

As always cutting criticism and comments via email (tomglendinning.photography@gmail.com) or 

facebook

, are hugely helpful and welcome.

If you don't like something then please tell me - and try to articulate why, it is tremendously useful to have feedback like this.

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