Mediæval Bæbes, or Pop Montreal, Day 1

[sfllaw]

Pop Montreal is rolling into town and so for the month of October, there will be a smörgåsbord of music that I can try out. Last night, was the beginning of this adventure.

Comments

[lambda_calculus]

I've enjoyed the little MB stuff I've heard, although it's not something I'd shell out for anytime soon. And who couldn't love a group with the word baebes in their name?

[sfllaw]

Thanks!

I suppose I should write up a list of shows that I'm going to, so that people can tag along.

[nobodyhere]

Just wanted to say I like the pullquote. Good way to draw people in to a relatively long entry without using an lj-cut. (I use lj-cuts a lot because I'm in communities that require it, but apparently Tim hates them so it's good to have an alternative.)

[sfllaw]

I'm experimenting with ways to make my journal more fun to read. I think I'll be using pull-quotes to break up long articles that I don't have photographs for. But I really don't want to be quoting myself, as that seems a little pretentious.

Flash Photography

[anonymous]

I hope you aren't using flash photography -- I'm sure you're more considerate than that, but flash photography is evil at concerts. The lead singer of Primus has been known to stop mid-song, tell the audience that there's a dick amongst them, and wait until the flash camera was produced. He then proceeds to use up the rest of the film taking pictures of things best left unmentioned and then returning it to it's owner.

Re: Flash Photography

[sfllaw]

You will notice that professional concert photographers rarely use flashes. That because it never actually works at concerts. Either you're too close and it makes the performers look flat. Or you're too far and it's completely useless.

If you take a look at my photographs, you'll notice that nothing's washed out. I have the opposite problem, which is that my compact camera doesn't gather enough light and things are too dark.