Well, my concert season is in full swing at the moment, although I lost a couple recently at the last minute due to promoters' decisions. Oh well, it happens, it's a fickle business. A couple of weeks back, Sam Roberts played a free concert in Market Square in Kingston. The stage had terrible lighting, some of the worst I've encountered as a matter of fact. Heavy red and blue colour wash means terrible photography in most cases. Processing these images means a lot more work. This is my favorite from that night, hands down.
Photo of the Week #78
On June 23 I had the privilege to photograph a show at Ottawa Jazz Festival featuring Serena Ryder. she has become one of my favorite Canadian artists. If you haven't listened to Serena you should give her a listen, what a voice! The live show is also nothing short of spectacular so check her out if you get the chance.
Review and more pictures can be found here.
Photo of the Week #77
Life has, once again gotten in the way of updating this blog. Thing have been pretty busy and upside down for quite awhile for me, I also recently made another trip to Nova Scotia. I wanted to do a lot of photography and since it was always cloudy and stormy there in the spring, I thought it would be amazing. This year, for some reason, it was sunny and clear for a lot of the time I was there. You might find it odd that I actually hope for bad weather, but for photography, weather makes for much more interesting images than those clear blue sky days do. I love weather, it means mood in my images and tons more interest. I'm not talking about those solid white skies either, I mean stormy days. I mostly underexpose the frame allowing for properly exposed skies and I worry about the foreground later on. If you blow out the sky in the first place, you have little to work with. The image below was made in Port Hood, Nova Scotia and is a 19 frame panorama and could be printed at 73 inches long if desired due to the 104MP resolution! If you're viewing this on a phone, do yourself a favour and check it out on a computer screen.
For a full screen (not full size) view, click image.
Photo of the week #76
This image was made in 2009 in Newfoundland and Labrador, a place called Arches Provincial Park. It isn't much more than a parking lot with a very unusual and picturesque structure that was made by millions of years of waves carving out several arches through a giant rock. Since we were driving by, we stopped in and this is one of the images I came away with. Getting any images from there was an exercise in patience as there were a lot of people milling about and one thing I've found is that tourists rarely care about someone trying to get a photograph.
Photo of the Week #75
Last Friday evening, I shot the closing event for The Breakout Project, which was a free concert featuring Sam Roberts Band and Kasador, a Kingston Band that features Angus Fay on drums and Boris Baker on bass. The band also includes Will Hunter on guitar and vocals, Cam Wyatt on Guitar and vocals and Nick Babcock on keyboards. They have a sound of their own, and I'm sure we'll be hearing more from them in the future.
Angus Fay (drums) and Nick Babcock, of Kosador opening for Sam Roberts Friday in Market Square in Kingston.
