Wood Green Gospel Choir - a fund raising concert for a Prague hospice

This was a fund-raising concert for a hospice in Prague, Czech

Republic and my my second attempt at a concert photography. Please

feel free to

comment

the folder as a whole.

Hi Martin,

 

Nice juxtaposition. Good placement of both heads. I feel a slightly higher camera position would have helped view the background singer. Now her head is uncomfortably pushed up against the mike of the foreground singer. I would like a bit of colour correction, to get rid of the tungsten light orange colours.

very nice. i enjoy how the nearer singer is in focus. lovely. the best picture of the folder.

Thank you for your comments. You are right about a slightly higher position. I was lucky enough to be able to get on stage, unlike most concert photographers who shoot from bellow, so I could have made better use of this advantage in this shot. Concerning the colour cast, the actual prints that the organisers will receive are more neutral, but when shooting the pictures I tried to wait for a single-colour light and underexpose a little bit to achieve a consistent look in all the pics from this concert, with a single strong prevailing colour in each pic and little shadow detail to make the faces and hands stand out from the dark background, and I wanted to emphasize this look in the internet version of this small portfolio. At first, I also found it distracting that there are white highlight reflections in the glasses of the lady in the backround, but then decided not to remove them, for they add a little tension to the picture, as together with the microphone the reflections force the eye to travel back and forth in the picture.

 

This is my second attempt at concert photography, though, so I am still learning.

Martin you had already produced better results than some concert photography "specialists" here, me included. I agree with Arjen comment on microphone position but about the colors. They give to the whole portfolio unity, style and character!

Thank you for you kind comment. This was my second attempt at concert photography, so I am far from feeling secure, there's so much to improve.