My friend Shannon somehow uprooted herself from the wonderful city of San Francisco and graced us lowly folks in Chicago! 🙂 While in town, I met up with her at The Darkroom where her friend Kathy was performing with her band…The Diplomats of Solid Sound.

So I grabbed my camera, my lenses, and of course…Snezhana and set off to take some photos in a dark dark environment.

I had never really shot a band before with the intention of coming up with quality images. Usually when I go out for an evening and there’s a local band playing I don’t bring a camera, and when I do go to a concert with a more popular band, I’ll often take a casual shot of the band or performer from far away as a memory and call it a day. Here was a chance to get nice and close to the band and snap away!

Now the band didn’t have the best lighting. Lot of red light which meant that in my post processing I had to be a bit more creative to not let it dominate the shots. Combine it with it being more on the dark-side and that made for a tough shoot! Some shots of other friends…

You can see the rest of the shots here: http://public.fotki.com/biggy/the-dark-room/