The Diplomats – All of the music, none of the politics.

I was out one evening and was chatting with Kathy, one of the band members of The Diplomats of Solid Sound Featuring the Diplomettes, when she told me about a show they had coming up in Chicago. They were going to be performing at The Darkroom, where they had previously had a show that I was at to get photos. While I was looking forward to getting some shots of the band, the bar itself really is a pretty dark room! There wasn’t much to figure out in terms of the settings. Extreme conditions call for extreme settings. In fact out of the camera, most of the shots were much more underexposed than what you see because I could only go so high on the aperture and ISO and then had to have my shutter speeds no slower than 1/30th or 1/60th of a second otherwise everything would look blurry. In a room such as this, the flash would have been too disturbing to the band and audience so I decided to use the environment and lighting and just go for a darker and more grungy style of photos. So when you’re thrown into a certain lighting situation and you can’t modify it with your own lights and gear…adapt!

The Dimplomats gallery **HERE**

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