Jim Wake & Sleepwalker [large images]

Well, here's something different for a change: A set I shot in a local café...

All images here

This was shot on march 30th, before going to Atak to cover a Reggae 'Soundclash' (soon to follow.)
I figured I would need a beer or two, to be able to deal with the 'Soundclash' phenomenon... For those not familiar with that: Lots of whistles, dissing the other party and so on. Not to be enjoyed entirely sober IMO.

Anyway; the café I went to had a band playing, and I decided to grab a few shots, because I saw some very nice expressions passing by....

The band was Jim Wake and Sleepwalker. Former US resident IIRC, now living in the Netherlands.
Nice guy, making nice music.

Lighting was not too good, but I've met worse... I even shot a few images at ISO 1600 and/or stopped down a bit

Camera 1D2, lenses: 20-35L; 28/1.8 and 50/1.4
The ISO 3200 shots have had a bit of Neat Image.

#1: Jim Wake

i like their style...the lighting is complimentary to the mood and helps enhance the images. very nicely done Rene'.

very nice work as always

#4 has a great facial expression but the guitar head is a bit too distracting for me.

Great quality work Rene, I love the feeling and texture to number one, Great captures on 3 and 4, and 5 and 6 are wonderful.

Lighting looks really Crappy, but you did really Well.
Cheers

Your usual excellence ... somehow even the magenta looks good!

#6's composition is a bomb!!!!

good set, w/ that signature damkot graininess and gritty feel.

3 could use a bit of crop to get rid of the leftmost guy. 6 looks like he's humming; would have preferred an open mouth moment. 7 is a decent stage shot but doesn't light my pants on fire. 2, 3, and 4 are feeling it.

Thanks all!

thelightofsound wrote in post #3246866
very nice work as always

#4 has a great facial expression but the guitar head is a bit too distracting for me.

Better?

narlus wrote in post #3250324
3 could use a bit of crop to get rid of the leftmost guy.

Now I look at it: I wonder why I didn't

narlus wrote in post #3250324
6 looks like he's humming; would have preferred an open mouth moment.

So would I, but I was at f/1.6 ; 1/40, so the one shot I got with open mouth was OoF (and he was looking away a bit too much).

narlus wrote in post #3250324
7 is a decent stage shot but doesn't light my pants on fire.

Agree. Lighting was way to 'localised' to get a decent one, and I didn't want to use fill flash...

narlus wrote in post #3250324
2, 3, and 4 are feeling it.

Thanks.

On a side note, I just came across"Raw PhotoProcessor" for OSX: Clunky interface, slow, very different conversion on some images, but does some things nicely. It allows 16bpc Lab output for instance. Somehow it does *not* give magenta skintones...

A very Q&D conversion, adjusted L channel a bit to get the face brighter, and add some vignetting, Hue/Sat adjustment layer, then converted to AdobeRGB, channel mixer: Red Channel R=90%, G=10%, resize, Neat Image, Convert to sRGB, save:
No blending exposures whatsoever... The original was a blend of 3 exposures...

i do like that second one better. also, thanks for the heads up on the converter; looks interesting.