K. Björklid Photography

A two-day indoor festival held last weekend at the Lutakko Club, done for Rumba magazine and Keskisuomalainen (newspaper).

The shutter drags(*) were mostly what was needed to make interesting photos. I usually avoid using flash, but this time the lights were so badly placed – and bad quality overall – on the two smaller stages, that I actually had to go home to get my flash in the middle of the festival’s first day.

(*): ‘Shutter dragging’ refers to a technique where the photographer freezes the essential parts of the image (typically a performer) with a flash, but keeps the camera’s shutter speed so low that the ambient light creates patterns as the camera moves during the exposure). The ‘Jaakko & Jay’ and ‘Steel Mammoth’ pics are shutter dragged.