Dropped into a little indie restaurant & cafe in Toronto's Junction Saturday afternoon for some music and an early dinner.
I haven't been shooting live music gigs much lately, but this place challenged me. On my previous visit I could see that the musicians played in some pretty difficult light: squeezed into a nook in the front window with powerful north-facing backlight, a view onto parked cars, a cluttered sidewalk and an intersection, and very low inside tungsten light. I tried a smartphone shot and the results were unusable, as you'd expect. So here's what I managed this time with this little jazz & blues duo, Fraser Melvin and Indira Nanavati Cadena. Sitting at the closest table to them along the wall, I over-exposed by a stop or so in Av mode and blew out the ugly street view. K-3, DA* 50-135/2.8, ISO 800. Some shots at f:2.8 (closeups), some at f:5.6 & f:8 (the duo). A touch of adjustments in Lightroom, but basically sooc for most. One portrait of Indira I retouched more completely and one I did as b&w. https://flic.kr/s/aHsk9hgRwM Sorry, it's a Flickr gallery. This link might make you happier: http://flickriver.com/photos/bruce_m_walker/sets/72157651335769077/ Comments welcome! -- -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.
