I’ve been back shooting a bit in the music scene. Shot one of my all time favorite singers Saturday night At The Grand Theatre, Serena Ryder. I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen her perform and it never gets old. Her voice and her writing abilities are second to none in my opinion.
Photo of the Week #179
Lately I’ve been exploring the use of black and white in my concert photography. it has been said that photographing in black and white is photographing the soul of the person. There is certainly something about a good black and white that just looks great. Hue and colour all of a sudden mean nothing, you are dealing with tonality and composition, nothing else. I’m really liking the experience, it is making me look at photographs differently.
Patrick Simmons, The Doobie Brothers
- Photo of the Week # 173
Throughout the pandemic I have had the honour of working with some of the nicest people I’ve met in the music world. I’ve been photographing emerging indie artists at showcases at Happy Green Acres when restrictions have applied. It’s been a lot of fun, with social distancing and all the precautions in place we have still managed to have some live music!
This photo is of Kelsie Mayne from this past weekend. A shot I took from the stage and I really like it. The back lighting and softness of the shot works for me. Kelsi released her first album just before the lockdowns started so hasn’t been able to play it live for all these months so she was very excited to get back at it.
Photo of the Week #171
After 16 months of not shooting much, live music is starting to wind up once again as restrictions lift. Recently I shot at a festival in honour of Sound Check Entertainments’ 10th Anniversary.. I’ve been around for 6 of those years and last weekend I shot one of my favourite photographs. This is Josh Norad, an independent emerging artist who also happens to be a great guy. Josh was our closer on Saturday night and did an amazing job of it. I loved the image from the start but it had terrible colouring and I just couldn’t make it look right……hence, the black and white. After switching it, I discovered the image was made to be black and white, it works very well. It may even make it into my portfolio.
Photo of the Week #154
I have been a Lightroom user for many years as an editing app. In all that time, I’ve only used Photoshop for a couple of minor little things when needed. With all the down time since the pandemic began, I have worked on learning some of it. I just thought it would be fun to explore some of the artistic things that can be done. This photo is one of the subjects I played around with. Colin James
