(caution: long rambling post to come - worse than usual)
So, my friend Jennifer:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2355455
http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=397377
and her group are playing at something called the Distillery Jazz Festival here in Toronto tonight, despite the fact that what they play isn't really jazz (but most acts at jazz festivals these days don't actually play jazz...). This fest is a completely gentrified, yuppy-fest in a trendoid restored and renovated area of town. A few good local acts, nothing international of note, mostly an excuse to go drink very expensive beer and spend $30 to watch a few good local interesting bands.
Jennifer is doing a show with two modern dancers that they've been working on for over 6 months. It will, at the very least be quite interesting, at best it will be amazing. The music, I know, will be up to her usual standard.
She wanted me to shoot it, and I said I would. Unfortunately, she said it was unlikely that I could get a free pass, which I understood, since this wasn't "her" show, and it was up to the organizers, and neither of us expected they'd give a free pass to anyone.
Well, turns out she did it, and I'm now sort of the band's "official photog" (a free one, but one none the less). I was actually going to bail, as much as I hated to miss it, because that $30 is going to come in handy at GFM <g>, but when I heard I got a pass, I was happy.
Plus, they gave me permission to shoot any other band playing tonight, along with non-band activities (ie: crowd shots and the like), and they'll want to look at my proofs afterward with a view to using them for promo of next year's fest. So, who knows what might come of this. I mean, it's no big deal, but one never knows...
So, bought a bunch of Neopan 1600, batteries for the flash (for the outside milling crowd shots), and I'm going to give the SMC f2.5 135mm a good work out tonight (I just bought it from Shel, and this is the second time I've used it). Since this is quite the big production, I'm expecting the lighting to be orders better than what I'm used to in the smokie bars that I'm used to shooting her in.
Should be fun. Full report to follow...
cheers, frank
"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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