I am not an event photographer, it’s not that I don’t like it. I really enjoy it actually. I just don’t end up doing it that often and I don’t really have the right equipment for it. My friend Bella Sin seems to want to change that. She asked me to shoot the Hot Pink Burlesque show this last weekend and then again to be an official photographer for Cleveland Pride in June.

I shot pride here in Columbus unofficially a few years ago I feel pretty good about the Cleveland thing. I was however worried about how I would do with the Hot Pink show. I really had never shot a night club show at all. That is why I agreed to do it partly for the experience and to see what pictures came out of it. As with any learning experience somethings I thought would work did not and some anticipated challenges turned out not to be challenges at all.

One of the hardest things about these kind of things is always just going to be physically finding your place. You can’t go behind the crowd because then they are in your shot and standing often puts you in their way. Which one asshole was nice enough to let me know in a not so nice way. I ended up moving around a bit for the different acts but spent a large part of the night crouched on the floor near the stage. This isnt always a good angle so I still had to move around a bit. Which is also harder than the studio because there are people to bump into.

Once I played around and found the settings I could make work on the camera the actual shooting wasnt that bad at all. Though it was constant for the whole line of performances (there were 20 or so).

The show was grand and I am so glad I did shoot it. You can see more photos of it here. After the party Bella, Natasha and I hung out at Dirty Franks with Viva Valezz and Co. Good times.

I’m looking forward to pride next month in cleveland that should be quite the party.