A week ago we took the car and drove to a small town called Alingsås, maybe 30 minutes north-east of Gothenburg, to see our friends in Inevitable End and The Weakening play at a small club there.
 
After some initial confusion we found the place, called Fabriken, and it turned out to be quite nice with cheap soft drinks and a small but proper stage. The lights were unfortunately centered in the middle of the stage which meant that the contrast between the front-middle and the rest of the scene was huge. If I exposed for the center everything else went black and if I instead exposed for the dark areas everything in the middle blew out and lost all details. The solution was of course to use a flash but silly me forgot the tungsten-correction gel at home so it was tricky to colour balance these.

More on colour balancing with gels here if you're interested:
http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/03/lighting-101-using-gels-to-correct.html


Anyway, about the bands. As you probably notice they share both a guitarist and the bass player but they're so much fun to photograph that it really doesn't matter :D



The Weakening at Fabriken, Alingsås, april 18th

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Inevitable End at Farbriken, Alingsås, april 18th

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(stroboscope rules! :D)









More soon.


/daniel.