Myself and around 20 other AUC attendees lined up from 4am outside the venue to secure a spot in the auditorium where Steve Jobs would deliver his hotly anticipated  keynote speech.

Once inside the venue there was more waiting around before doors opened, here are some particiapants enjoying the free conference Wi-Fi network on their iPads.

Two of the tricks with any low-light indoor photography is toning down the orange look (setting the white balance to tungsten helps) and using a tripod. Many of these exposures were somewhere between 1/8th second to 4 seconds long, allowing enough light to fill the sensor and enough time to get that blurriness motion effect of the people.

Sometimes no matter how much you tweak the colour temperature, a photo can still look a bit ordinary so turning it into a black and white shot is often a good saving grace.

Even Burt got in on the action…

Fortunately, with a recent Live Music Accord being brokered behind the scenes just prior to the rally it looks like common sense will prevail. More information can be found on the SLAM website.

Concluding the show by announcing a hiatus, the group plan to return to the stage later in the year.

Gutsy reporter Lawrence Leung (pictured 2nd row middle) attempts to escape the clutches of the hungry dead. Check out his article in this month’s jmag.