Charlyn Cameron

This week I took four days off work, I had a fever and a chest infection. Rocking up to the Arena last night wasn’t exactly fun. I thought, yeah four days off work, got plenty of rest, I should be fine by Friday night. My body was pretty much in shock mode.

I was photographing The Herd for RAVE magazine. Would have liked to stay and watched their set right through the end, they’re an interesting band.

I was kinda excited about photographing Mondo Generator at the Arena. I have only been at the Arena twice to see The Dresden Dolls and Cog as a punter. What a total disappointment Sunday was. What’s with the live music veneues in  Brisbane loving the red lights, nothing good comes out of it. It’s very frustrating trying to make the best of the situation. Trying to take good photos of the band and making them look good is impossible. This assignment was a total fail!! All my images were just crap. I took photos of the support Mary Trembles, good stage presence, plenty of rock and roll moments, but there wasn’t enough lighting. They are a good band live and fun to photograph but the Arena lighting was a let down.

I’m photographing there again on Friday. This time round I”ll just play it safe and take the standard  poritrait head shots, nothing creative.

This is my only good photo of the support act. Head over to The Dwarf to see my shitty shots of Mondo Generator.

Seeing Magic Dirt for the first time was awesome.The support act, The red sun band converted me. I like their stuff.

This weekend has been kind of relaxing considering the last three weeks Sophie and I have been to parties, crazy!!

Here’s some snaps from the last party, last weekend.

JD Samson (Le Tigre) was DJ’ing at GoMA as part of Picasso Up Late. It was pretty cool, having uplate in a gallery. I did get to met JD afterwards and got her to sign my ticket. I did have a quick look through the Picasso exhibition. I”ll be going back there again to fully experience it. It’ll take hours for me to wonder round and soak it in.

I didn’t photograph Unwritten Law, abit pissed but oh well, bascially didn’t get anything back, again I hate people who don’t reply back! Should had put my name down to shoot British India, seemed to be the hottest ticket in town. JD Samson gallery here.

At the moment I’m going to try my luck emailing bands PR and hope for the best, maybe I”ll be able to shoot someone, argh, back to the drawing board. I seem to be on a downer lately, just my mood and stuff, strange. Anyho, I”m hoping to shoot Magic Dirt next weekend for Fasterlouder. A band I have never seen live.

Last month I bought my first ever JPG magazine, it was the “Human Impact” issue. There was an article about TtV (Through the Viewfinder) and it got me excited. I thought that looks interesting and fun. TtV is basically taking a photo through the viewfinder of another camera. I experimented this afternoon, my subjects weren’t the greatest.

Monday night I went and saw The Breeders at The Zoo, it was exciting. I wasn’t fully into the whole atmosphere because I was so exhausted from work and still recovering from the weekend, even though I didn’t do much. For photos of the gig, head along to The Dwarf and check out Helen’s photos. She was super massive excited!!

Last Friday, I finally did it!! I bought a second camera body, Canon 40D. I’ve wanted to buy this baby since last year. I haven’t played with it alot. I”m just abit overwhelmed by the features, it’s more powerful then my 350D. I’m loving the quick control dial, such an awesome feature to have!! Not used to the sound of the shutter, I don’t know if I like it, when I first tried it I thought there was something wrong. The LCD screen is abit of a shocker. It’s nice and big but viewing images on it is like walking up with blurry vision (maybe I just take crappy photos). I”ll still be using my 350D, I still love that camera to bits. There is a gig this weekend I wouldn’t mind checking and testing out my new baby. Next on my wish list of things is… new lenses…hmmm.. delicious.

Gig wise, waiting confirmation on Unwritten Law, I really, really want to shoot this gig, like REALLY!! Slipknot are touring (yes, I”m a maggot - well not really, I don’t worship the band, hardcore style. I do have a shirt) and they are bringing with them Machine Head, Oh My Gosh, is all I have to say!! That is an awesome line up. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 9am, I”m hoping it wont’ sell out super fast. As soon as 10:30am hits I”ll be on the phone hopfully buying a ticket. The Grates (ha, from one end of the music chain to the other) tickets also go on sale the same day. I could have had the opportunity to pre-order their CD and with it comes a ticket to their gig but I”m a tight arse and decided to skip that option, instead I bought a Sounds of Spring Festival ticket. I wouldn’t mind photographing this event but I highly doubt that I would be considered for it so, yay for a ticket. Gosh music festivals are coming up so fast.  Valley Fiesta is on in September, I shall be going and it’s FREE, sweet!! Peaches is playing Parklife, it’ll be soo good to see her again, but I”m not going. Peaches play a side show!!! My brain is on music/gigs/festival overload at the moment. I applied to shoot the Caloundra Music Festival. I had a good time last year, so why not do it again this year. Last bit of news, I”ve joined RAVE magazine. I joined last month, I haven’t been on any shooter assignments for them, it seems to be tougher to get gigs I want to shoot. It’s early days yet, step one is to get an assignment, step two maybe get PUBLISHED, that would be freakin awesome!!