It's taken me a week to finish my editing, so here are a few of the results... last Saturday, Steven Delopoulos from Burlap to Cashmere did an acoustic show in my town, promoted by a good friend of mine. As a favor, I shot the show (plus for my own portfolio work of course). It looks like I'm going to shoot his shows on a regular basis, too, which is nice because on July 9 is Colin Hay from Men At Work.
At any rate, I wanted to share a few of them with you. Before I do, I'll share some technical info.
The stage was in near darkness, Steve wanted it to be an intimate show. I was lucky in the fact that being an acoustic show, everyone remained seated, so I was able to use my tripod. Most shots were 1/4 second, sometimes slower. I shot a total of 4 with flash, which was about the minimum I felt I could get away with.
Because of the lack of light, I was shooting at ISO 1600 as well, which means NOISE CITY. I used Noise Ninja in post-processing to clean up the noise, and I think it did a tremendous job. Finally of course, I converted to B&W using the Digidaan filter.
So here are a few. This first one is one of the few that I used a flash on, and was shot with ISO 100. I wish I could have shot this way the whole show.
This one has a very "VH-1" quality to it.
He stayed seated all night long. Speaking of VH-1, the format he took was very similar to VH-1 Storytellers. It would have worked extremely well, had it not been a theater and had been perhaps a nightclub, or even a dinner-theater type place.
Finally, here's one in color. Again, I prefer them all in B&W, I think the low-key lighting works best that way. More natural.
My friend who promotes the shows has a website, http://www.lostsierraproductions.com/, which is where my images will go in the end. I'm delivering them in digital format, since he doesn't need prints... 30 separate images, both B&W and color. I'm also going to contact Steven Delopoulos and his management to see if they might want to use these on his website as well.
If you want to see the whole series, they're at http://www.thechances.com/gallery/stevendelopoulos/
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