Hi Frank, >From your intro I'd expected more. It's an OK pic, but it doesn't capture the "feel" of a smokey jazz club, and the photo seems to be stagnant, not particularly dynamic. It doesn't help any that a piece of the guitarist's hand is missing, either.
A few years ago I took a weekend seminar on portraits given by Baron Wolman, the Rolling Stone photographer from the 1970's. He said something that made a lot of sense for this type of photography: Try to capture the peak of action. To do that may require some anticipation of what the subject will do, which requires time spent observing the subject carefully and observing his or her moves. Here the musician is looking at his guitar, and there is no contact at this moment between him and the audience, or between him and you, the photographer. This sets up a barrier, or at least a distance, between viewer and subject. Shel > [Original Message] > From: frank theriault > Okay, before you open it, go get your berets (which I know you have - > doesn't everybody?), smoke many cigarettes to get the computer room > nice and smokey (to get that "jazz bar ambience"), and start calling > everybody "cats". > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3115576&size=lg
