Agreed; the lighting was directional which helped me a lot. Especially when I moved to shoot the group against the wall (shots #2 and #5).
Thanks, Paul! On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice. The backlighting is at just enough of an angle to provide some > shape to the players. > > -p > > > On 4/6/2015 11:32 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >> 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! >> > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > > -- > 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.
