On Sunday the 18th of March, 2007, members of RockPointe church, along with interested visitors, assembled in the Crowfoot movie theatres to view a message from U2’s Bono and Bill Hybles about combating AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. These are my photos from the event - it was, frankly, a nightmare to shoot because of the low lighting. The ultra-high ceilings in most locations made a flash bounce impossible, so I ended up shooting without a flash for most of the shots. The end result is ISO 1600, fairly grainy photos - some of which I transformed into black and white where the grain helps the image have more impact. Looking at them at smaller sizes (sub-1000 pixels), they don’t look too bad actually. That’s the thing I always forget about ISO noise, odds are few people are going to be staring at the photos on a 24″ LCD monitor running at 1920 x 1200 like I am…and when the photos are smaller, the ISO noise tends to vanish.

This was my first real use of Adobe Lightroom, and I was quite impressed with it (for the most part) - look for a review of it on Digital Media Thoughts. Here’s a selection of some of my favourite B&W images…

You can check out the rest of the gallery if you wish.

That’s right, after years of threatening to go to Gnomedex and harassing Chris Pirillo in person, I finally bit the bullet and registered to attend in August of this year. The $500 USD price tag was, frankly, a lot for me to swallow - I think it’s the first conference that I’ve ever paid to attend. But I’m a fan of what Chris has achieved in the online world and have heard excellent things about Gnomedex over the years: the speakers, the events, and the networking. So I’m going. Are you? If so, let me know and we’ll connect there.