Here are some pictures taken at last evening’s gig:

The Claimstakers at St. Patrick Tavern, New Prague, MN

One of my favorites was taken with the Nikon 50mm at f/2:

Thanks to Mike, Todd, Neal, John, and Tracy of The Claimstakers for being such great sports!

With the help of friend-of-the-band Willy, I attempted to recreate an outside-flash-through-a-window technique as mentioned in The Hot Shoe Diaries by Joe McNally.  I failed pretty miserably, as evident in the pictures toward the end of the set above.  I only tried it once and didn’t want to subject Willy to too much Minnesota winter.  I believe the SB-800 was configured really poorly, and that’s due to the fact that, well, I have a lot to learn about the SB-800.

Overall, an extremely enjoyable shoot.  I’ve been fortunate to have extremely kind and patient subjects so far.

The band also invited me to sit in on drums for the last set.  Aside from butchering the intro to Evil Ways (Santana) not once but twice, I think I did okay.  [ Gratuitous self-promoting plug: I'm also in the band Public Static. ]