DJs and Lights

Athens Pyramids is a hookah bar owned by students of Ohio University. It's an ideal place for cool cats to hang out on the weekends. There's good music, dancing, drum circles, and good company. It's a chill place to hang for the evening with friends or a happenin' place to go to continue your party after the bars close. DJ An-log and company play every Friday from 11-2.

The light at the hookah bar is very poor for taking photographs. If you add the flash, then the figures in the photographs are washed out, but if you take the flash away you may not be getting the effect you desired. This last trip to Pyramids, I wanted pictures that were realistic to the colors that I see when I am there. In some, I wanted a blurred, streaky light affect. I think I accomplished this to some degree, but would like to see improvements the next time I shoot. Also, I would like to play more off the light that is present on the DJ's turntables. I did this a bit in the first photograph. You can see the light reflecting on top of the record is very white. What is more interesting about the first photo, however, is the green light.
First Photograph: The green light was from Andrew's phone. I held it up to the turntables and then used the reflections from the side of the turn tables to create what I think is an interesting affect.
Second Photograph: I like the blurring in this picture, although I must admit it was somewhat unintentional. I took several pictures like this that evening. I wanted to focus on Andrew's headphones as well as the crowd. The difference in color between Andrew and the crowd is very different and I'm glad that I was able to capture that.