Concert: Balmorhea

[JWH]

This afternoon I went to a wonderful gig of Balmorhea with the pianist Nils Frahm as support.

Balmorhea is a fully acoustic band consisting of 6 members varying from Piano and Guitars to the Cello and Violin. The genre is hard to put in a box, it's probably a combination of modern classical and post-rock. All I can do is recommend you to take a quick listen by following this link: http://vimeo.com/1745080?hd=1.

This was the first time that I attempted taking photos at a concert and I do notice that my Canon 450D is a bit limited because of the noise showing up quite quickly at a higher ISO. However the conditions at this particular place were not so bad and spot metering worked perfectly. I've decided to use the Carl Zeiss Planar 50/1.7 and I could even put the aperture at f2.8. Which is what I used at all my shots.

Nils Frahm
( 1 photo due to the horrible placement of the microphone holder. )



Balmorhea













I hope to get some feedback on this!

[JWH]

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[Mal1905]

Don't worry, it's nothing personal - people are busy posting their own material and perhaps don't have time to reply. Personally, if you hadn't posted a follow-up comment, I probably wouldn't have had the opportunity to look at these photos

That Planar 1.7/50 is a very sweet lens, and one I'm ashamed to say I haven't used all that much. There's a great sense of activity in these images, and the fact that the players are multi-instrumentalists is quite impressive.

[Orio]

Good photos, good exposure.

[JWH]