Bring The Noise

Every now and then you just have to throw out the rules and go with the flow. I took this photos in Alvino's bar in Newcastle, its part of the wall decoration on the stairs. It was quite dark and I had to crank the ISO settings up. Most photographers hate noise and grain on photos and do everything possible to cover it up. I actually quite like it. so here is my digitally noisy photo, unashamedly bad yet hopefully awfully good ha ha. And yes it does say "cock tunes" !!!!

view bring the noise here on flickr © Anthony Dorman

Thanks to Amelia from Alvino's for being such a lovely host and a talented young photographer with a bright future ahead of her.

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New Years Eve Carnival 2010

I was asked if I would like to take some photographs of the Mandinga Arts carnival float by an ex colleague of mine from my Cheltenham Art Gallery days. I was given a pass and allowed to move freely amongst the carnival performers which was great as I wanted to get close to the action. Being me I soon shot into portrait mode. One thing that i was aware of was that I wanted where possible to use only the available light as I am not a huge flash fan. This presented a couple of problems straight away with regards to shutter speed and ISO. Luckily my camera can deal with high ISO very well so that I just had to deal with the changing light sources and frenetic pace of the performers - arrrgh!!!!

View the full size image on flickr by clicking here © Anthony Dorman

View the full size image on flickr by clicking here © Anthony Dorman

View the full size image on flickr by clicking here © Anthony Dorman

View the Mandinga Arts Page by clicking here and see some of their great carnival costumes and floats.

 

As you can see I am posting images that don't correspond to the date of the posts. I have quite a lot of images to post before I am up to date with my current images although some of those can be seen by clicking this link.