tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56122309808728432122012-02-10T19:52:43.795ZPhotography by Gary Wolstenholme - www.inventory-photo.co.ukinventory-photohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05082771192571180729noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612230980872843212.post-29250867787640375912007-11-04T21:13:00.000Z2007-11-04T21:17:42.303Z

Yes! I've gone and shipped everything over to a Wordpress type blog... it's just better you see. I can post things quicker (so it doesn't get so horrendously out of date), I can make it look nicer and it just seem to work a bit better!To visit the new blog please goto:http://inventoryphoto.wordpress.com/This blogger blog won't be updated any more as it's horrendous!

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Moaning is easy, but when I receive great service from a company, shop or otherwise I like to talk about that just as much. So here goes...This summer I took delivery of a Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 DC telephoto zoom lens to use at festivals. I'd had terrible luck so far, with two lenses breaking in two months. My much loved Tokina 80-200mm f/2.8 had some sticky aperture problems, so I purchased a

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Architecture in Helsinki Originally uploaded by inventory An image from last night's gig at the Plug in Sheffield. To be completely honest, this band aren't really my cup of tea, but the crowd seemed to enjoy them, and that's what matters after all... isn't it?

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Two festivals in two weeks, that would be V in Chelmsford and the Leeds leg of the Carling Weekend, plus plenty of standard giggery-type fare in-between.So what were the highlights for me? well:The Ghost of a Thousand performing at The Leadmill in SheffieldThey put on a great show, to a fairly sparse audience. That audience was made a little more sparse by my early departure for another gig

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The huge amount of general busyment I've had to contend with over the past few months has meant I haven't had time to keep this thing updated at all.Hopefully I'll be able to remedy the situation once the festival season's over, but in the meantime I will still keep my website and flickr page up to speed with my latest work.While I'm here, I may as well point out some of the highlights since my

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Drowned in Sound's Sheffield correspondent, Rob Webb, reviewed Slow Club's performance on The Steel Stage at the Leadmill in Sheffield. Of course one of my pictures of the night was used to accompany the piece.The review of the evening can be seen here.The night didn't start as smoothly as I'd hoped. A few of the usual Leadmill guestlist issues (even the band's manager was left off the list) had

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Rob Webb's account of the evening can be seen here.It tickled me that Rob, felt it appropriate to mention my frustration at the band's control over the venue that evening. When I arrived, the security informed me that I wouldn't be allowed into the pit, at the request of the band. No problem, I thought, I've shot many a gig from the crowd before, there's no reason why this one should be any

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The 'On Stage' section of this month's edition of Music Mart magazine contains an image I took at The Milburn Christmas Party, held at the Fusion and Foundry in Sheffield University Student's Union.The accompanying review, written by Rob Webb, explains how Milburn have become 'one of those Marmite bands'. All things considered, it was a good gig. The crowd were as mental as they always are for

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It seems this one slipped through most other photography website's nets.Canon have issued a recall on certain 24-105mm f/4L lenses. Apparently early versions of the lens will exhibit excessive amounts of flare in strong backlit situations (like a gig for example). Further details of the recall can be found on Canon's website here.Any of the earlier models affected can be shipped back off to Canon

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I discovered a great way to sort out corrupted memory cards in Windows XP, completely by accident, this weekend after photographing Jamie T at the Leadmill.When I tried to transfer the RAW files to my computer for processing, Windows XP produced one of it's all-too-familiar Warning/Error messages stating that the files on my card were unreadable. The problem with shooting RAW is that none of the

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A few bits and bobs of my work can be seen in this month's edition of Sandman magazine.Images have been used to accompany a feature on Sheffield based six-piece Dead Like Harry, MJ Hibbett's 'Tales from the conference league' column and a review of Dragonforce's performance at the Octagon in Sheffield.Sandman is the north's free monthly music magazine and is available in pubs, clubs and live

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This Christmas, while you may have been catching up with family and friends and eating a little more than could be deemed healthy, the busy people at website have given their website an overhaul - it now includes features on the latest up-and-coming musical talent.A music-related blog and the features section both bear images taken by yours truly... to take a look, please visit

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Indeed, there is more to the stuff I use than just the camera and lenses. When I'm out and about, I need to carry my camera in something, plus there's other items such as monitor calibrators and flash equipment to complete my kit.To help me cart my kit about, I use either a Lowepro Stealth reporter D550AWor Crumpler Company Embarrassment. The Crumpler bag is slightly smaller than the Lowepro,

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99% of photographers will use zoom lenses for most of their work as they provide flexibility for composition at the expense of their light gathering ability.I tend not to use zoom lenses as I prefer flexibility with exposure. Lots of practice and experience has enabled me to learn to change lenses quickly, and to second-guess what the performer is about to do (in most cases) so that I don't miss

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The bulk of my work is taken using prime lenses with bright maximum apertures. The kind of venues that suit these lenses include small dark venues, through to medium-sized ones.These lenses afford me great exposure flexibility at the expense of convenience, it took me a long while to get used to changing lenses quickly enough so that I didn't miss important shots. Keeping an eye on the performers

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If you are new to photography, learning a little about how different lenses effect exposure will serve you well - especially if you're about to fork out a large chunk of your hard earned cash on some swanky camera gear.There are several different aspects of lens specification to consider and each will have a bearing on the conditions you can obtain good results in and the condition of your bank

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Some would argue that the camera body is the most important part of any camera kit, after all it's the bit that makes the image, isn't it?Modern digital SLR cameras are all so good nowadays, that they will all produce great images in the right hands, (Yes! that even includes Samsung SLRs) it's just a case of finding which one has the features you need (not want, unless you can afford them) at the

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For some strange reason I get quite a few emails asking me what equipment I use to take my images , or that I would recommend for someone else to use.Apart from finding this a little bizarre, (it's not like I'm a household name or anything) I also rarely have the time to compose a detailed reply to people's questions... so I decided to create this part of my blog where I can refer inquisitive

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As part of DrownedinSound's collection of feature articles to see out the end of 2006, all regular contributors to the site (writers and photographers) were asked to put together a brief 'Mixtape' made up of your favourite tracks released in 2006.This was a little unnerving for me. I'm more than happy to take my pictures leaving those who feel they have valid opinions to express, the space to

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It's a bit belated, I know. I was incredibly chuffed when another photographer let me know that he'd seen one of my pictures printed in The Guardian Guide supplement.The image in question, was one I had taken not long before of The Long Blondes in concert at Sheffield University, and was used to illustrate their unique fashion sense.I've photographed The Long Blondes many, many, many times over

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Indeed - this month's edition of Music Mart, the magazine for performing musicians, contains not one, but seven of my images - including the front cover image of The Klaxons!Other images featured inside include a full page copy of another of my Klaxons images, plus images of The Noisettes, The Rumble Strips, Bromheads Jacket, Good Shoes and the Maccabees.You can pick up a copy of this fine

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Photos I took of Xfm Manchester's Christmas Live Session gig featuring Boy Kill Boy and The KBC, have been published in the gallery section of the Xfm website.The invite-only (well, you get given tickets if you ask nicely) gig held at Manchester's Life Cafe venue was the final of its kind this year. The aim of these live session events is to showcase bigger-than-unknown bands in 'intimate'

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Indeed, it's been a busy year. So as the sun begins to set on 2006, I thought I'd have a look back over what I've done this past year, before starting afresh in 2007.I began the year by setting some goals for myself - goals I didn't think I had a cat-in-hell's chance of achieving, but I managed a fair few of them.Special highlights from this year include:FestivalsOne of my main goals this year

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OK... well I thought I'd start one of these blog things. 2006 has been a fantastic year for my photography (even if it hasn't been for anything else!) so I thought I'd start sticking some stuff up here about my activities, because you're dead interested... right?Whenever I can, I'll chuck some stuff about the actual nuts and bolts of my work up on here as well. That way you'll be able to read up

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