Getting a charge

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

Juggalos charging up in the dark - IR flash / Candid

This was shot about 10 or 11 years ago at a Juggalo concert. IR flash in the dark. It was hard shot to do. IR flash has a fast drop-off. I had converted a Sony camera to IR. It had a great shutter, a silent one. But it had one issue. The flash didn't work with the silent shutter. Flash was disabled in silent mode. Too bad. That would have made the ultimate stealth street camera with the silent shutter and invisible IR flash.

Maybe they have changed the camera/s in 2025, don't know. Maybe they have a silent shutter with flash enabled. I don't keep up with the camera gear any longer. I'm retired from photography about 95% and only work with archival material more or less now. I can't pound the pavement like I used to due to health issues. Well, I study up Phase One gear for copy stands and such. If I hit the lotto will buy one or two of them for a few hundred thousand $. But need 2 or 3 cine' scanners first. 

Well camera companies don't think along these lines like I do. Makes sense to disable the flash if you go silent. But I was on my own wavelength back then. Took almost 5 years to perfect IR flash. I could have given up anywhere along the way. I just kept throwing $ at it. 

Oh...I still do lots of keyboard photography. Hundreds of thousands of screen shots made with a screen recorder. I still have maybe 40K - 60K of old photos I took to go through, someday. Never got round to them. Archival material takes all my time. 

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Edited September 11, 2025 by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.