Two Recent Concerts

[Norm in Fujino]

I shot two concerts recently, one by Sakata Akira (http://www.warabi.ne.jp/~daphnia-pulex/english/e_profile.html) (jazz sax) and the other last night by Mariko Terashi (http://www.peoplesound.com/artist/marikoterashi) (classical piano). I’m just doing it for fun/practice and the good will generated by a few shots for promotion, but I at least did get my ticket money back from the concert organizers last night. Here’s a few shots from each concert:

Sakata Akira
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/concerts/P4166131w2.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/concerts/P4166206w2.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/concerts/P4166316w1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/concerts/P4166340w1.jpg

Mariko Terashi
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/concerts/P4226535w1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/concerts/P4226512_f2.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/concerts/P4226463w1.jpg
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/concerts/P4226455aw3.jpg

All with the E-300, ED 50-200 (ISO 1600), most at about 1/40-1/50s (shutter priority), handheld in the dark (leaning against the back wall). With the shutter speeds and given the subject movement as well, it's pretty well impossible to get perfectly still shots, but some of the results are still usable.

Developed with Silkypix and some additional PP.

[D Thompson]

Norm - very nice captures under difficult conditions. The 1rst shot of Sakata Akira is very good - nicely lit & just a hint of the person in background makes this shot. Thanks.

[Norm in Fujino]

Thanks Dennis. I tried to catch the bassist--or at least the shadow of his fiddle's scroll--in the shots, so I did get some interesting results here and there.