Pure Ecstasy at the Broadway Grill
I was planning on a Tibetan lesson last night, but when it got cancelled, I was left with "nothing" to do. "Nothing", for me, apparently translates into:
- Going for a run, getting rained on
- Coming home, taking a shower
- Emailing a bunch of people about upcoming shoots
- Going to a cafe, eating a red velvet cupcake, and studying Tibetan for an hour or so
- Walking home, stopping by the store on the way
- Doing two blog posts about my yak leather bag(s) and an upcoming trip to Tibet
- Receiving email back from people for the upcoming shoots--hurray, got the models I wanted!
- Going to see my friend Will and his band Pure Ecstasy at a bar down the way, with camera in tow
- Downloading shots, making selects, and exporting JPGs
- Finally crashing into bed
And let's note, that all took place between about 6pm and 1am. Solid evening! Here are a couple favorites from Pure Ecstasy at the Broadway Grill.
Stage lighting is so tricky. It looks awesome in person but is killer-hard to get right on camera. I think the trick is that you just have to completely GO WITH IT. So far as I know, there's no good tool to "fight" it--and by that I mean normalize it somehow--other than going black and white. This is the kind of thing I can only seem to learn when I'm just messing around--like last night. By the way, I didn't do any color correction on any of these photos--just tweaked the curves a little and added some noise reduction, along with a bunch of cropping.Note also that I scared the crap out of the band when I snuck up behind them (whoops). Sometimes I think being a musician is a big advantage in shooting musicians--it does help me anticipate when things are going to happen--but then sometimes I think being a woman overshadows that completely.