I know exactly what you mean, Charles. Fine shots, insufficient energy or excitement to recommend them. I bet it was a lot different when TD was 20 years younger and playing huge stadiums. From your wide back of house shots it looks here like he's playing a retirement home.
I've got no end of stage shots of bands that are competent but basically phoning it in. Those shots are locked up in Lightroom, never to be seen. Youthful performers working hard to be noticed are better material. BTW, I like Dolby too and still get a kick out of his tunes. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
