PESO: Friday Night Blues

[Paul Stenquist]

I wasn't going to post this until next week since I already posted two 
shots this weekend. But I see there's a shortage of conversation here 
anyway (longest sentence? :-), so I figured what the hay. Anyway, the 
guy in the pic is named Paul Miles. He's a Michigan Blues singer who 
works the Birmingham streets on busy days. He's also recorded a couple 
of CDs (my pic on the cover of one). He's appeared in a number of blues 
festivals and various other venues around the country. He's quite good 
and a very nice guy. I shot this with the FA 35/2, converted to BW in 
PS using the channel mixer. It was quite dark when I shot it, so I 
tried the on-camera flash at ISO 800. I have some other pics from 
slightly earlier without the flash, but I sometimes like the retro look 
of BW flash pics. I tried several different crops and settled on 
retaining the cut-off figure on the right. I think it helps the idea of 
a passing crowd. I wonder how others feel about this partial body. By 
the way, this prints rather nicely on the Epson 2200 with the standard 
ink set. I'm printing more BW inkjet these days and liking the results.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3410319&size=md
Paul