I have returned to my senses

[foxgrrl]

I have returned home from the Shpongle/Hallucinogen concert. I am more awake right now than I have been in years. I still hear the music playing in my head.

Mere human language can not express the experience.

I became intimately spiritually connected with everyone in the building. (And the building itself.)


I wonder how you, the reader who was also there with me, experienced the event. How did you feel? Were you happy, very happy, or did you experience a several hour long orgasm? I want to hear some objective confirmation of the woo-woo-mystical stuff I noticed.


Postscript:

Look! Shinny Things!

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And there's plenty more where that came from...
Why no, my camera doesn't do video; I shot 1047 pictures before its batteries died.

Comments

[photographer.livejournal.com]

> I didn't take that, nor any of these: http://flickr.com/photos/earlyadopter/tags/posford/
> I think that was the guy up on the front of the stage taking pictures.

Those are mine.

I also don't like flash at all, but this day I felt it's better to use it. It's more for the history. :)

Although -- no doubt -- yours show how it really looked like much much better.

[aenaminie.livejournal.com]

Ahaha you totally got pictures of him as he was making all those faces to his music. I LOVE that SOMEONE got that on film :P That was one of the best parts :P

[photographer.livejournal.com]

yeah, that's what I call history :)~

[foxgrrl]

I actually had my SB-800 with me there. In hindsight, maybe I should have put it into remote mode and set it up on stage somewhere. With all of the other flashy lights in there, I wonder if it would have been firing continuously – just another part of the stageshow.
(I remember, for a few shots, lengthening my shutter speed to a second or two, to try to use your flash for illumination. The results were overexposed, and I didn't bother to change f-stop since I was mostly tring to capture motion, and I needed a fast shutter speed to do that.)

(Since I switched to digital, I have been using a flash a little bit. Mostly I turn the power way down, do rear-curtain sync on long exposures, or bounce it far away/move the flash itself far away from the camera.)

I was not planning on taking any pictures at all, so I left all of my other longer and faster lenses out in the car (with my spare battery). In hindsight, my f1.8 50mm would have come in handy. The lens I was using (the D50's 18-55mm kit lens) is f5.6 at 55mm. (The 210mm also, for getting the opposite stage earlier.) I didn't get any pictures of the parrot, because by the time it was next to me, I had discharged my batteries.

A VR lens probably would have help too, I was holding my camera against the posts on the side of the stage (since my tripod was out in the car too.) And the bass from the music/speakers was making everything vibrate noticeably. (I don't actually own any VR lenses, but they're on my wish-list.)

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I dug up some of the images with your flash going off:
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5910.jpg (You can see one of the other camera girls in this one.)
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5896.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5840.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5887.jpg

There was someone else at the other corner of the stage (stage right?) and their flash added a nice effect:
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5917.jpg (I like this one.) (Apparently they have red-eye reduction on, or their point and shoot fires the flash to focus/meter before opening the shutter.)
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5918.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5890.jpg (Compare this one to http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5887.jpg above)

More contrasting examples:
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5787.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5788.jpg
http://www.arclight.net/~julia/lj/2006_Apr/dsc_5789.jpg

[photographer.livejournal.com]

Those are nice shots. All those games with colors... -- I like them.

Sorry I was blocking you the view.
Next time don't be shy, just move the bastard (no matter will that be me or whoever else) out of your of sight. :)

By the way -- few good pictures (http://www.zvuk.nnov.ru/photo/thumbnails.php?album=427&page=10) from Moscow (http://www.zvuk.nnov.ru/photo/thumbnails.php?album=427&page=11) where Simon was playing (http://www.zvuk.nnov.ru/photo/thumbnails.php?album=427&page=12) a week before he stopped by San Franciso. Looks like they've got pretty good time there too.

[aenaminie.livejournal.com]

Man they had fire dancers. The last time we saw Shpongle they had fire dancers... but it was outside.. Not in. And the costumes certainly weren't as cool.

Damnit... I didn't have enough room in the venue to do light poi!

[photographer.livejournal.com]

> I didn't have enough room...

The guy next to me in line at the entrance did light poi outside while we were waiting to be searched, and then I saw him on the opposite to Simon stage during Posford's performance spinning lights.