Bound by Blood

This time last week I was at the Lifestyle Centre in Winsford with students from Performing arts - Dance and Drama. You might be wondering why? Well if your not, I'm telling you anyway. I was asked by there team leader - Rachel Butt - to photograph there dress rehearsal so that the photographs could be put on display at the actual performances starting the following day and go on display at the Art and Design Exhibition. I was chuffed that I had been asked.
I arrived at the Lifestyle Centre at 9am. I left at 10.30pm. It was an incredibly long day.
My photos were interesting, I got some really good results and some really poor results. I did find it difficult at first to sort out the settings on my camera right. Though I eventually got it right. I didn't use the flash on camera, I occasionally used my flashgun though. However I soon realised that I actually got more atmospheric results if I took the flash off. Instead I set my ISO to 800, relatively high, this meant I got a bit of noise in my images but it wasn't so bad and barely noticeable on most shots. The fastest shutter speed I could get away with was 1/60th of a second with an aperture of about 22.
The cast I was asked to photograph did two run throughs which gave me plenty of opportunities to take photographs. They were very aware of me floating around at first though, so you can see them watching me in the earlier set of photographs. After the first scene though they were told to ignore me, pretend I wasn't there, the photographs improved then.

This is one of my favourite images, taken at the start of the second rehearsal just as the performance started. I love the atmosphere it creates and the colour of the lights.

The police officer talking to Mrs Johnstone and then to Mr Lyons (below) is possibly the most memorable point in which we notice the split between first and second class citizens. To Mrs Johnstone he threatens to take it further, to court. However to Mr Lyons he suggests simply docking his pocket money and not letting him play with children such as Mickey, Mrs Johnstones son.

This image is my favourite, I haven't edited it at all but the background has come out really dark therefore the subject is really clear and there is a nice contrast.

This image I think is rather amusing, it shows "Linda" shooting at the target in the park after having both the lads miss. She hits the target even though she is simply messing around, and not taking it seriously. Proved by her chosen stance.

This final set of three image are personally my favourite, taken during the scene where they about to go see the two films "Nimphomaniac night" and "Swedish opairs" (I apologise if they are spelt wrong). I think it is by far the most hilarious set of pictures when talking about Mickey asking Linda out. Eddie is clearly setting an example after having read about it.

I do have an awful lot of other photos I could upload however, I don't really have the time for all that.