Martin Rocks Out

Published October 20, 2008

I’ve been remarkably lazy with my digital camera since I got it back along with the Sigma lens that needed adjusting. Last weekend fixed that and I shot photos at two concerts with four bands in total.¹

I learned a lot from this, although at 857 photos I’m still too trigger happy, and there’s more than a dozen photos I’m quite pleased with. So, since I haven’t managed to do any worthwhile street photography in a while this blog is likely to be all about concert photos for the next few updates.

This photo of Martin from the Ninja Dolls, the band that got me involved in this, is right now my favourite of the lot. It’s taken at Kopparhatten here in Falun, a place with a tiny stage and unhelpful lighting (is concert lighting ever helpful?), and is pretty much as it came out of the camera. Well, besides a very modest crop on all sides, a bit of sharpening and the resize on export.

I guess it’s also interesting that this photo is only the second colour photo I post here but I think it’s more interesting that it’s the first colour photo I post that I shot digital.

Update: Yes, I’m the guy that changes his mind twenty minutes after uploading a photo to his photoblog and uploads a new version. A bit more cropping this time around. Cropping a bit more off the left side brought better balance and reduced clutter even more. I retained the aspect ratio at 2:3 so the bottom got cropped a bit as well. I may be illogically fond of the 3:2 aspect ratio but for a portrait format photo I also think anything slimmer is unlikely to work very well.