Mucho better. More interesting & less static than the previous shots. I think it has also helped that there dress more "Jazzy".
In the shots you posted before, without your back story, you wouldn't have known it they were playing jazz or polka music :-) Great stuff. Dave S On 5/7/05, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys might remember that I was working on some shots of my buddy, > trumpet player Tim and his band. The shots were pretty flat and > unemotional. > > Well, a couple of weeks ago, Tim and his band (with a different bass > player) were at a well-known local jazz bar, The Rex. It was Tim's > birthday. For the occasion, the band members wore suits (and look a > bit "jazzier", I think. > > The lighting was much better, IMHO, although Tim was in a spot, so it > was either Tim properly exposed and everyone else real dark, or > everyone else okay and Tim blown out, or cut Tim out altogether. > > I had 1/2 roll of HP5+ in my Leica that I'd been pushing to 1600, so I > decided to try that with stage lighting only - no flash. I don't know > what you think, but I prefer these results to the last bunch: > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3340570&size=lg > > Sorry for the long story. I'd be pleased to consider all > comments/critiques/yays/nays. Thanks. > > cheers, > frank > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >
