Our band is recording a new album so we’ve been in the studio the past couple of weekends. This is where the magic happens.
Canon T2i in the studio.
Category Archives: Out and About
The weekend and holiday shots.
Surreal courtyard
A few weeks back, we stayed in room #6 next to the old, well manicured cypress tree at the far end of this little scene. Though the original shot was well exposed, I couldn’t resist tweaking it a bit with Photoshop and Nik Silver Efex Pro (version 1). Layering the original shot over a black and white conversion produces an interesting faux HDR effect.
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm at 24mm. 1/30 second at f/16, ISO 200.
Canon T2i making the scene.
Inside and out
Because it’s raining buckets today I’m going to the well (so to speak). These are a couple of shots I took before a gig at a San Francisco watering hole a couple of weeks ago. With a steady hand, the G11 in “Manual” mode, white balance set to “Cloudy” (which tends to saturate the colors), and the flash turned off, I got several night shots I liked.
Inside: 10.8mm (49mm equivalent), 1/8sec at f/3.2, ISO 800.
Outside: 6.1mm (28mm equivalent), 1/30sec at f.2.8, ISO 400.
Canon G11 at a watering hole.
Series on the Avenues
We played a gig out on the Avenues in the Sunset District of San Francisco last night. Instead of commuting all the way home then driving back to the city, I stopped near the venue and walked around with my camera for a couple of hours. Most of the shots I took were of prettier stuff, but I ended up liking these funky images the best.
Canon T2i out on the Avenues.
Low light venue
This past weekend we went to see Liz Carroll at The Plough and the Stars in San Francisco–the event was part of the three week long Irish-American Crossroads Festival currently taking place in the city. Liz is an absolutely amazing fiddle player! On this occasion she was accompanied by a fine young Canadian guitarist/pianist named Jake Charron. The show was GREAT! What a night of top notch music.
I brought the G11 along and discreetly took a bunch of photos. During their sets, the stage lighting was very low so I had to shoot at a high ISO with a very slow shutter speed–and because of the slow speed many of the shots of the very animated musicians came out blurry–in a distracting way. I do, however, like this shot of Jake taken just after he tuned his guitar and just before the start of the first set.
I got several decent shots of Liz, but the mic placement turned out to be too much of a distraction in the frame. For some reason I kept coming back to this grainy, soft focus shot. It pleases me aesthetically.
Canon G11 being discreet.