because a Reverend can't be wrong.
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On his mountain of trash
he’s learned to adapt
to the passing
of life, and cars.
He walks in the dark
unalone in the park
and stares,
not at the stars.
Not knowing thier will
he doesn’t know to sit still
picking his meal
out from the debris
of god and man
on unholy land.
He lives the life
of the truly free.
Last night “Soul Glow”:http://letyoursoulglow.com/ played an excellent show at Zubar on Lowest Greenville. Or at least the part of it that we caught was excellent.
For some reason, I spent the entire day thinking that the show started at 8:00pm. It turns out it started at 5:00pm. “Lemonjello”:http://gentlenews.com/ called around 7:00pm to ask me where I was. Oops. So Jess and I drove as fast as we could, just in time to catch the last set.
I tried to get some “live” shots of the band playing, as I had told them I would. With the fear of “another failure “:http://revjim.net/item/9958/ fresh on my mind, I was determined to make sure I did everything by the book. Additionally, though I have seen them yet, I’ve been told that many of the film shots from the shoot turned out blurry. I don’t know how that’s possible, as, for the most part, people were stationary and I was using a tripod. None the less, blurry is blurry in anyone’s book, so I don’t need to see them myself to know that they most likely are, indeed, blurry.
So, I did everything by the book. I couldn’t use a tripod, so I worked handheld and used a much faster film speed (or digital equivalent) than before. However, I soon realized that the images were still, mostl likely, going to be too blurry or too dark — your choice. So I decided to use a flash. I’m not much of a flash guy and I don’t know a whole lot about it. But, using digital makes it easy to learn as you go, so I figured what the hell.
They turned out decent. Not great. Not bad. Just decent. The only thing I really don’t like is the fact that, while I could have used a slower “film” speed (and therefore created smoother, less grainy images), I was afraid of background blur and so I left the “film” speed set high. The “noise” in the resulting images is a bit annoying. And, now that I’ve reconsidered it, I’m sure I’ve could have come down a few stops to help improve that and still managed to get well defined backgrounds.
I also want to say a big “thank you” to “John”:http://cliche.gentlenews.com/, who was, to date, the only person who really came forward, with no stepping around the subject, to tell me that he thought the digital images (the only ones he saw) of the Soul Glow photoshoot were not up to par with the other work he has seen from me. I really appreciate this honesty and wish that more people would realize that constructive criticism can be helpful when delivered appropriately. I don’t need to be pantronized. I don’t need to be lied to. I don’t need my feelings to be kept from being hurt. If it sucks, tell me it sucks. Period. So… again, Thank You, John.
I’ll, hopefully, have a few images from the show up for you to see tonight.