The carved metal sign vibrated with the color I was chasing. Add the blues music accompanied by this signage and it was the start of a great evening. Able to photograph blues musicians while not on assignment allowed me to try some new techniques and experiment with different settings.
I included the hanging light in the foreground as a semi-complimentary
color to set off the blue of the light on the sign.
Host RJ Howson with Guest Sidney Wingfield on-stage at the Blue Rooster on 4th Street in Sarasota
Blues piano & Sidney Wingfield frame blues guitarist RJ Howson live at the Blue Rooster.
GX7 camera preset Sepia tone of RJ making blues with his guitar.
Sidney Wingfield keyboard player with personality!!! Wonderful vocals too!
Most photos in this post were captured with the 35-100 f2.8 Vario lens. A few done with the 12-35 f2.8 Vario lens. All with the Lumix GX7 camera.
Since this blog is for photographers I want to address a thought about camera formats.
I have been shooting with larger formats than the micro 4/3rds for a long time and when I talk to photographers about my preference for the smaller system I often get the question, “Aren’t you afraid your customers won’t think of you as a professional because you have smaller cameras and lenses??” The answer is unequivocally “NO!”
What I find is that people respond to the way I work, my body language and the way I approach capturing an image vs how big my gear is. I choose the proper tool for the job and am respected as a pro for for my finished work and that the files or prints I give to my clients meet all their needs.
Share your thoughts and comments here….
I’m with you and all the “Lumix luminaries”! I’ve been lugging around a canon 1ds and f2.8 “L’s”in my canvas domke F2 bag; shooting nothing but manual exposure and wb RAW for years. Just bought a Gh-3: I’m”stoked”.
“Walk the talk!” We photographers have spouted for years:”IT’S NOT THE CAMERA!!”
While we walk around with 10’s of thousands of dollars in “pro” bodies and glass.
Now when we are putting our money where our mouth’s been; we admit to feeling the cringe of trepidation.(yeesh a “small consumer grade camera”).
I get a kick out of the pixel peepers:”But I NEED full frame!”Quality is omnipotent!”
Then why aren’t we all shooting wet processed 8×10 view cameras?
because a wedding or motorsports race would be nigh on impossible.
In reality; Enough “quality” is enough.You miss 100% of the shots you didn’t take.
I just found your blog from the google+ hangout you did;looking forward to reading more!
Regards.
Agreed Frank. Finding more and more ways to use my 4/3rds cameras in my biz every day. Right about 95% of my work now done with smaller but cleaner camera chip. Still have one or two small things I still need my other gear for but as soon as I have the solutions for quick tethering to the computer and to control the camera for stacking images for DOF with software I’ll be at 100%.
Nice blues shots Bob ; I was just in Sarasota( lido key anyway ), over a weekend Jan 4,5th 2014. Will Crockett has a video on mark Hauser’s studio where they tethered a gh-3 with a usb cable and a usb switch into lightroom.Does the gx-7 have a usb output?; I shoot the gh-3 wifi directly into lightroom.and the freelumix link android app should let you use the “touch focus” function to bracket your focus for individual shots. Keep at it and a solution will present itself.
Cheers.
Thanks Frank. I know it’s a matter of testing and good suggestions! I’ll take a look at the focusing workaround you suggest. Great possibilities. I was used to Helicon Focus that automatically figured the lens camera combo. You tell it where to start focusing and where to end and it computes and shoots all needed exposures and then allows you to use the software to put all the ‘sharp bits’ back together…