Fun fun fun! We did so many things and saw so many bands, it was great :) We ate delicious icypoles [I had carrot and ginger, yum!], painted our faces with neon crayons, wore Cap Sacs, listened to music and pretty much people watched all day. So many hipsters...
It started out as a pretty hot day, but as the night went on it got to about 7c - aka very, very cold. I like it cold though so that's ok, except we didn't pack enough jumpers so it wasn't a super comfortable coldness lol. Unfortunately for most others they hadn't packed a jumper at all and there were girls in minimal clothing everywhere freezing their fake tans off. On that topic, since when did shorts that are so short your actual butt cheeks hang out become fashionable, let alone acceptable to wear in public?!
Ok enough vivid mental images and on to some physical ones.
Courtney wore a sick original 80s jacket, it matched the cap sac brilliantly.
Okay, so I want to do a more detailed post about this later, but here's a quick rundown.
For gigs and festivals it's getting harder and harder to bring in cameras that remotely look like they are professional. I can take in a 3493493 megapixel point and shoot, but if I try to take in a film slr equipped with a lens that is going to capture nothing but some coloured lights for double exposing or the like, it's a no go. This is really, really frustrating and annoying.
So, my phone ends up being my go to camera for gigs. This is ok, but the photos are not. They're cool to look at to try and remember the night but anything more than that they're pretty much useless. Blown out or too dark, high contrast or patchy colours, out of focus or motion blurr. Yep.
I HAVE A SOLUTION.
Well, not a solution, but a rad way to help bump up the quality of your phone images.
EXAMPLE.
These are of Kimbra at GTM, taken with my phone camera with a little bit of zoom. Probably a third of the way zoomed in. See the massive blow out on her? You can't tell who she is at all. The lights are fuzzy. The stage is too black. Urh.
THESE are with my new nifty shots that I am super stoked with, thanks to my new found cheat!!
Yep.
How much more detail and clarity are there in these compared to the first one? Unfortunately, my phone battery died after I took these few shots. Lol. I'm stoked with the first one, it's definitely made me realise the untapped potential my phone has.
I'm going to try and post about my sneaky cheat this week.
Did you get to GTM? Or maybe you were lucky enough to grab tickets for Splendour?
Stranger.
Glad you had an awesome time, I hope Newcastle was good to you on the visit as well :)
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