Due to other commitments we arrived at the show about halfway through the first set and, so as to not disturb the folks we were seated near, didn’t break out the cameras until the second set — so the photos from this show are a bit thin. Add to this that the stage was, for some reason, very (and I mean VERY) dimly lit, made shooting a real challenge.
The full set of selects from the show is available on my SMAC gallery: [url]http://smac.dmg-photography.com/SML-Jun-2010[/url]
The June show was a great mix of guest musicians in addition to the fantastic regulars at Stone Mountain Arts Center. Miss Tess was there, but we missed her performance. The last time Kenny White (with Cheryl Wheeler) was there he blew the audience away with some stunning performances. This night was a bit more subdued, but he played some new works including a great New York blues piece that went over well. Rounding out the evening was Boston’s mandolin man, Jimmy Ryan. Jimmy has played at SMAC a few times and fits right into the fun and musicianship that is the hallmark of this place.
Here are a few more pictures from the evening and the technical notes follow.
Jimmy Ryan backed by the Stone Mountain Boys:
JJimmy Ryan with Duke Levine:
Miss Tess and Jimmy Ryan belting out a tune:
Did I mention how much I dislike microphone stands? Here’s another great concept that almost came together:
Curtain call: Sonny Barbato, Carol Noonan, Katy Noonan, Duke Levine, Miss Tess, Kevin Barry, Richard Gates (hidden), Kenny White, Jimmy Ryan, and Billy MacGillivray.
Technical notes:
This show was the debut of my new camera, a Canon 7D (so new I haven’t even attached a strap to it yet). The wide shots were taken with the Canon 5D Mark II and a 24-70 f/2.8L lens. The closeups were with the Canon 7D with the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens strapped on. Both cameras were set to ISO 2500 and barely managed to grab the images at 1/60 second at f/2.8. I bumped up the exposure in Lightroom, sometimes by nearly a full stop, so there’s probably a bit more noise in these images than you normally see from my concert images. How dark was it? It was so dark that I took some photos of candles using the same settings and they were perfectly exposed. It was so dark that I had to lower the white balance by nearly 800 kelvins so people’s faces didn’t look like they were sunburned (the dim tungsten lights were pushing further towards the red end of the spectrum).
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