Hi, I thought some of you maybe interested to see how this combo goes at festival shooting. I used M mode and shot at f2.8 and kept adjusting the timing and ISO (800-1600) to suit the light. The web gallery is 10mb so if you have a slow connection it may be a bit slow.......thanks, feedback is welcome, taojones

http://byronbayphotographer.com/Bluesfest08/index.html

Great stuff! It is a joy to look at your gallery
Claude

Very nice. I even recognized a few faces! That looked like a great festival. Who were you shooting for?

Very nice work. I enjoyed all of your galleries. I recognised a couple of faces from Womad 2008.

Charles

Good stuff!

Terrific set!

thanks..I was shooting for the bluesfest itself. To add to the info I shot with spot metering in raw and processed through lightroom. All outside shots 24-70mm in P mode ISO 400. Some shots outside with fill in flash. When I used the flash at night outside I used M mode ISO 800 f5.6 at 1/6th of a second, I like the slight blur effect this setting gives and makes for good BW.....thanks again t

PS software used for web gallery is a free program but well worth donating to, link below.

http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/

what artists might i know, being from the USA?

when i think "blues" i think robert cray, eric clapton, bb king, and more recently: Anthony Gomes, Shemekia Copeland, Jonny Lang, Corey Harris, Susan Tedeschi,Joe Bonamassa,The White Stripes, North Mississippi Allstars, The Black Keys, Bob Log III, etc.

vinke wrote:
what artists might i know, being from the USA?

when i think "blues" i think robert cray, eric clapton, bb king, and more recently: Anthony Gomes, Shemekia Copeland, Jonny Lang, Corey Harris, Susan Tedeschi,Joe Bonamassa,The White Stripes, North Mississippi Allstars, The Black Keys, Bob Log III, etc.

Ian Brown, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davies, Tom Waits (I think), Jools Holland...
Hmm, I see what you mean! :-)

Great gallery by the way.

Most of those artists have played over the years but now it has become a mixture of music, with world music, jazz, folk, blues etc. I think maybe changing the name would be good but its so well known in Australia as 'The Bluesfest' they will probably stick with it..thanks t www,bluesfest.com.au



vinke wrote:
what artists might i know, being from the USA?

when i think "blues" i think robert cray, eric clapton, bb king, and more recently: Anthony Gomes, Shemekia Copeland, Jonny Lang, Corey Harris, Susan Tedeschi,Joe Bonamassa,The White Stripes, North Mississippi Allstars, The Black Keys, Bob Log III, etc.

Excerent stuff. I've been thinking aboot getting a 5D but with so much speculation about the new version I'm hanging back.

taojones wrote:
thanks..I was shooting for the blues
PS software used for web gallery is a free program but well worth donating to, link below.

http://www.stegmann.dk/mikkel/porta/
thanks for the link, I was already using simpleviewer, but this just makes life so much easier and give a few more options.


Enjoyed your Bluesfest gallery. Some great captures.

WOW, Nice serioes of photos. I am assuming you where House Photographer. I recognized alot of the bands:

Black Crowes
Ray Davies
Buddy Guy
Sinead Oconnor
JJ Grey and Mofro
John Fogerty
Brandi Carslie

GREAT LINE UP!

Wonderful series of photographs.

Simon Kennedy wrote:
vinke wrote:
what artists might i know, being from the USA?

when i think "blues" i think robert cray, eric clapton, bb king, and more recently: Anthony Gomes, Shemekia Copeland, Jonny Lang, Corey Harris, Susan Tedeschi,Joe Bonamassa,The White Stripes, North Mississippi Allstars, The Black Keys, Bob Log III, etc.

Ian Brown, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davies, Tom Waits (I think), Jools Holland...
Hmm, I see what you mean! :-)

like i said...when i think of the blues.

w/ brown, knopfler and davies i think of 80's pop/rock...not blues.

holland and waits...blues? maybe a bit.

Nice series, enjoyed it a lot.

thanks every one for your comments...tj

Looking at your pictures really makes me want to hear the music.

Some of these are really quite good, especially toward the beginning. Very impressive.

Yowza! Very nice PJ work here indeed!
Regards,
Jon

Great photos!!!!!!!!!!
I posted a link on the KW site and just saw that you have met Maggie R. since then.
Your web site and Blog are very good also. Make that outstanding

Wow. I just checked these out. Almost all of these photos are great musician portraits in their own right! I guess you were really "in the zone". I particularly like the last one of the first page.

The lighting guy at that show really brought his A-game too, it looks like.

Very good set. I'm interested in seeing what you think are your best shots? (I got lost in the gallery because there's no indication how many pictures there are or were passed).

I really like these. Great shots