Sprite Photography: Five Years Further

Alright, I'm a little bit behind, but I've been very sick (kidney infections.. no fun) and busy with work, not to mention how horrible my computer has been acting.

These are the pictures from Saturday, Oct 16, 2010.

Colton, the lead guitar for Five Years Further picked me up to take me to the show at the Taphouse in St. Albert. We hung out at Cam's house for a bit, talked, he showed me the recording studio where they do their stuff, and all of his guitars.
The whole band is pretty sweet, good guys. A lot of fun, and are pretty typical in their mocking sense of humour. But I liked them.
I helped Cam pick out a font for their set list, we chose Papyrus, and he was rather happy with the effect.

I brought my Sony Alpha 100 to this show. It was the first time I'd used it at a concert, and it was a little intimidating bringing that big hunker out. I took it out and was playing around with the settings with the first band, Autumn Portraits, and before they were done their set my battery was already dying (I'd not charged it because it had half battery) so I was a wee bit flustered.
The battery lasted me all of FYF's set though, so I was very happy with what I got out of it.

I need to get more lenses. This one doesn't do much for me, really. It's not badbadbad, but it doesn't work very well when I'm getting in peoples faces.. I tend to lean towards dramatic close up and crazy angles which don't really work with this particular lense. Too bad mom lost my other one. But I'll get more, and for now I'm learning how to utilize this one.
I basically cranked my ISO, I would like to try to find a better way to do it, though, because maxing ISO just winds up with a lot of noise and the pictures are still really dark. Some can be fixed with editing but others not so much.

I'm quite happy with some of the photos I got, though, and the boys were very impressed and have asked me to come take more for them this weekend at Lyve.
My plan is to go to Lyve, take pictures of them, then zip over to the Pawn Shop to shoot The Weekend Kids. I think I'll probably miss Audio/Rocketry, but what can you do.. Apparently FYF was supposed to be on this bill originally, which would have been nice, but it should all work out.

I plan on taking lots of pictures of people in their costumes.
If I can't get into one/both of the venues (still have not got new ID. Payday friday. I plan on fixing this.) I'll just walk up and down Whyte and do impromptu photoshoots with people in their costumes. Woot woo!