jazz

[mattpallante]

[attachment=18061:Jazz.11_18_09.0723.jpg]Saw JL Ponty in Berlin in mid 70's and at a local jazz club last night. Fun!

[shutterpup]

Was the fact that it's out of focus deliberate? It really detracts.

[RSL]

Matt, I'll give it a "nice try," but Pup is right, it won't quite fly. You made the shot with a Canon Powershot G10 hend-held at 1/4 second, and that was too slow to cancel the movement of the people, which the camera's image stabilization won't help cancel. In addition there's some obvious camera motion that the stabilization system wasn't able to damp at that slow a shutter speed. There are many situations in street photography where a small amount of softness from subject motion isn't a problem, but camera motion almost always is a problem. But it was a brave try. Keep trying.

[jasonrandolph]

I have to agree with Pup and Russ, and add that the side profile of the musicians doesn't work for me.  To me, music shots have to capture the emotion of the musicians to work for me.  You can't even see the singer's face.  Also, the gentleman on the left is so light that he becomes a distraction.  I'd say shooting from different angle and increasing the shutter speed would definitely improve this shot.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I agree with Pup, Russ, and Jason.

To make blur work, IMHO, it needs to look fully intentional. You could perhaps get effective abstract photos by using a 2 or more second exposure and a tripod, so only the musician is blurred, but seriously so. Or, even better, without a tripod, waving the camera in rhythm with the music during a long exposure. That might convey the feeling of the jazz.

Eric

[mattpallante]

Yeah, it doesn't work. I mean, no, it doesn't work. I didn't have enough light, and there was no room to move around. The guy on the left is the drummer, who was looking to the band leader as he played. They were such great musicians, and I was so geeked from the show, I temporarily talked myself into thinking it might be ok. Story of my life, I'm all ways looking for 2 more f stops....Matt

[RSL]

Yeah, it doesn't work. I mean, no, it doesn't work. I didn't have enough light, and there was no room to move around. The guy on the left is the drummer, who was looking to the band leader as he played. They were such great musicians, and I was so geeked from the show, I temporarily talked myself into thinking it might be ok. Story of my life, I'm all ways looking for 2 more f stops....Matt

Hey! Don't give up! Keep trying. That's the only way you'll get pictures. As HCB once said, "You can't develop and print a memory."

[popnfresh]

Hey! Don't give up! Keep trying. That's the only way you'll get pictures. As HCB once said, "You can't develop and print a memory."

Or as Mae West once said: "Why don't you take a picture? It'll last longer."