Single Flash

For class this week, we were going out and shooting with off camera flashes. I shot several events throughout True/False weekend but decided to use selections from the Buskers Last Stand for my final assignment. When using a bounce flash, this worked pretty well. The bands that I photographed were mostly playing under a low white ceiling that worked well for bouncing off light. I shot some of the performances with a direct flash only because it was part of the assignment. In most of the situations this weekend, bounce turned out looking much better. The Buskers Last Stand had well over one hundred fans and musicians crammed into a relatively confined place. I was using the flash in exclusively manual mode. This all made for a fine balance between lighting moving events in a darker room and trying not to blind anyone with the flash.

Jake Greenlaw, drums, and Colim Gulley, banjo, from The Toughcats play in the Missouri Theatre for the Arts. The Toughcats are part of a group of musicians, filmmakers and fans from Maine who travelled to Columbia for True/False.

David Wax leads the crowd in song at the Buskers Last Stand on Sunday night. Every year, the Buskers Last Stand closes the festivities at True/False immediately following the end of the final film.