Chris & Danny Pino of Left Standing - 01/13/07

Any info on lens used? Venue? who are these guys?

Whoops, sorry, thought I put that back up when I fixed the image.

Canon 20D
Canon 50mm f/2.8
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO Speed: 1600

Shot at Celebrity in Las Vegas, they're the best unsigned band in Vegas. Nicest guys in the world, and to top it off... they put on a GREAT live show.

Atheomerase wrote in post #2611699
Whoops, sorry, thought I put that back up when I fixed the image.

Canon 20D
Canon 50mm f/2.8
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/1.8
ISO Speed: 1600

Shot at Celebrity in Las Vegas, they're the best unsigned band in Vegas. Nicest guys in the world, and to top it off... they put on a GREAT live show.

Thanks, for responding so promptly...
Since you've shot at a show room in Vegas, you open your self up to a lot of questions...The pic is good...how did you manage to take pics in a Casino? Aren't there traditionally, exclusive house photographers?

Celebrity is just a Lounge/Club type place that is stand-alone by Fremont Street. Sometimes they give me a hard time bringing the camera in, but since the band wants me to shoot them, I just let the door guy know im with the band and they let me in.

No problem about the reply speed.

Atheomerase wrote in post #2611741
Celebrity is just a Lounge/Club type place that is stand-alone by Fremont Street. Sometimes they give me a hard time bringing the camera in, but since the band wants me to shoot them, I just let the door guy know im with the band and they let me in.

No problem about the reply speed.

Ah, the local lounge scene...It's typical in resort communities...I lived in Lake Tahoe and Reno/Sparks for many years and the lounge scene is hopping 24/7...the musicians are real good too cause they have several gigs to play at...

I always used to say, tell the host at the door what you need and give him a good tip...he'll cover for you if need be.

Good Advice, especially if you don't have the band backing you to get in. These guys usually play 2 times a month, when I'm not on the road, I like to catch their shows.

Atheomerase wrote in post #2611902
Good Advice, especially if you don't have the band backing you to get in. These guys usually play 2 times a month, when I'm not on the road, I like to catch their shows.

I was writing just now in the wedding section too...It would be interesting to check these venues out, for all they have going on weeknights, when it's a little slower...If you're a local, everybody will recognize you and eventually it's a shoo in to get through the door.

Gratuities and comps were the words of the day, and they probably still are...

any chance you'll be able to post larger images that this one? I import them first into a second party storage site, like photobucket.com, at 800x600....Here in the Forum your pics can be up to 800x800...

Later,

John

I post them to flickr with 1024 as the largest dimension, either height or width, whichever way the photo is orientated...

I think I'd crop a *bit* tighter (top and right), to remove the guitar head completely. Apart from that: Nice image, but:

johnstoy wrote in post #2611933
Here in the Forum your pics can be up to 800x800...

Good point on the crop, sorry about the larger than 800 img, I'll have to re-size a larger medium size pic for the 800 max size on the forum.

Ha, ha...that a little bit too big...The detail is excellent though...

We all lose some resolution in reducing our pics here...That's usually, but not always understood...so the critiques can always be debated, simply by virtue of the image size...

I hate looking at thumbnails after a shoot and thinking I have some GREAT shots, then getting back to a laptop to see they were soft. Resolution tricks are a pain, but we must learn to live with them in a digital camera age hehe

Thanks, I was very happy with the detail, colors, contrast, etc, just wish I had a little more focus on both faces, oh well, it's not bad as it is.

You didn't have much wiggle room for depth of field...the exif has it at f1.8, @ 1/125th of a sec., and ISO 1600...there isn't much wiggle room at 1/125th...it would have been a close call to change the aperture...especially if you were after this particular moment...(sometimes it's the only chance you could take.)

Atheomerase;
when you get a chance, check out my recent posting, it's Tequila Sunrise, further down here, on the front page...