I attended a concert last week. It was the first time I've ever had a chance (that I knew of) to see Thomas Dolby. He's still putting out albums and I still find them fun to listen to.
I got to the venue early enough to score front-row seating (general admission). I've got the gear in my bag, batteries charged, I'm ready to go. The show was great, I had no problems with the lighting... everything went wonderfully! So, I get up the next morning and sort through the images. Yup, a lot are out-of-focus, as is to be expected when people are moving around and you're shooting at 1/15 of a second with a telephoto lens. I finally boiled down to a set of images which capture what I saw and posted a gallery. Then I looked at it a few times to pick out "a winner" to share with friends who were there, and I realized I didn't really care for the lot. What I've done is successfully documented that I was at a show, and who was there, and what they did - without a single (to my eye) compelling image. Fascinating. How'd I do that? Almost every time as I'm leaving a show, someone will see me buttoning up the bag of gear and ask "did you get any good shots?" and my self-deprecating response is usually "I have no idea, we'll see if anything looks good tomorrow". But this time I truly think I didn't quite succeed. With that out of the way, if anyone is curious to look - am I full of it, or are these just too... "static"? http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2012/Thomas_Dolby/index.html -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
