I met up with MJ Klein, the New Hampshire Bushman, his beautiful wife , Hui Chen, and Saumen for some music at a Thai nightclub and the best Thai food I’ve had in Taiwan at Shao-hui’s in Hukou. We actually started at the Pig and Whistle in Hsinchu, where a forumosa.com afternoon happy hour was taking place. After a couple of hours at the happy hour, we headed to Thai Star, where MJ was playing a set with Thai band Fong. He had previously played with them at an SE Asian Music Festival which he blogged about a couple of weeks ago. Incidentally, MJ was a featured photographer on this site a couple of months ago. Okay, enough of the words, it’s time for the photos. Enjoy.
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For the photo geeks amongst you, here’s a couple of technical notes. This club was dark. Very dark. To capture these shots, I needed to shoot at ISO 1600 and 3200, underexpose a lot of the shots and drag the shutter just to get something usable. Very tough shooting conditions. And to make matters worse, there was a hot yellow light above MJ’s head that was blowing out most of the shots. If I exposed so that it wasn’t blown out, everything else ended up too underexposed to use. I’ll post a few outtakes later in the week of some shots that didn’t quite work.
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Fantastic shots, Craig! you make it look like it was worth listening to the bad music! the 3rd shot from the bottom is my favorite. great work. thanks for coming with us Craig.
Craig.. “Great pictures” !!!.. It was really dark inside, wonder how you got such pictures.. Nevertheless MJ’s dark glasses are looking great..lol, the SanSong rum glass behind MJ (4th picture from the top) has also been picked up very neatly… Fantastic work!!!
Hey,
Did you do any Taxi covers? Maybe next time you’ll shoot a short video too. Something to add a little live flavor.
great photos. i especially like this one http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2029/2081820091_d49d19254f.jpg
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I had a pink light that washed out most of my shots at New Year’s Eve. If the SB800 speedlight would have been functioning, I might have found a way to deal with it.