This week I was asked to shoot a band playing, not just a band but a Swing Band. Fantastic music and a great sound. They want images to promote the band.
This I thought would be straight forward, but as ever what you expect and what you get can be different.
What I was looking for was a shot with some of the atmosphere of the band coming through. Its Swing Band - lots of movement, sound and character. The fact that the light was off was great, now we aim for blur.
The main issue was light, there was very little and poor quality, no directional directional lighting and no flash gun in the bag. I opened up the ISO to 1600, the lens to 1.8 and clamped myself against a pillar and got in close.
In Photoshop CS5 the ability to remove the noise is just great, then the ability to remedy the white balance good. This I did in Adobe RAW.
Some cropping and then a move to a B&W photo via the great software Silver Efex Pro worked its magic- here the result.
Well, you can't quite here the Glenn Miller but a good feel of the night.
More shots from the show here: http://www.brucehammersley.com/
Have a good day
B
No comments:
Post a Comment