RE: Four Photos...

David Young showed:

Subject: Four Photos...

 

 

At the recent LHSA meet, in Rochester NY, one of the talks was "Jazz, 

Leicas and Me", by noted Jazz pianist, Sy Johnson.

 

After his talk, he gravitated to a slightly out of tune Steinway, 

just outside the ballroom, and proceeded to give about 20 of us a 3/4 

hour, impromptu concert.

 

Sy is a soft spoken, easy going guy, who's photography is 

excellent  (See http://www.johnstevenson-gallery.com/johnson.html) 

... and his music is even better!

 

Conditions were difficult - very poor lighting and a moving 

musician!  All exposures were hand held at either at 1/4 or 1/8th 

second, f2 at ISOs of 1600 or 3200.

 

The four shots can be seen at:  http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/Sy.htm

 

Well done David,

Available light at it's best! The techies would get their knickers in a knot
about slight movement if there was any. But what they miss is the feeling of
the moment is far better to capture that than having colour balanced images
razor sharp.

 

Your efforts are extremely well done hand holding at the mentioned shutter
speeds. The scene and subject should not be destroyed by some twit flashing
it rather than having the guts to go for the slow shutter speeds. Besides
nothing ventured nothing gained in this kind of subject matter.

 

Besides it wasn't a paying assignment so nothing really lost if the slow
shutter speeds didn't work. 

 

The blurred hands playing is just the way to shoot that kind of subject
isn't it? After all it's the motion of his hands flying about the keys and
the picture illustrating that action that's most important! Not a couple of
hands crystal sharp as though stopped! Any idiot can shoo that kind o shot,
particularly with flash! Of course it's nothing more than a pointless
photograph!

 

However because you made the effort to try, one should always try, rather
than whine about the negative aspects of not enough light. Excuse factor
number one?.... "I couldn't shoot it with out flash!" BS!  It comes back to,
"if you can see it, you can shoot it!"

 

The bottom line always is "if you can see it with the human eye you can
photograph it if you have the where with all to try!" Besides isn't that
what Leica is all about... "available light and shooting the subject as you
find it?" 

 

Well done mon ami.

ted

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