'Jazz Legend: Dave Pell'

Jazz legend Dave Pell played saxaphone for Bob Crosby, Les

Brown, went on to lead his own longtime group 'The Dave Pell

Octet', and also even produce recordings. Here is shown at a LA

Jazz gathering photographed by invitation. (I am not paparazzo and

only photograph celebrities by invitation). Your ratings, critiques and

observations are invited and most welcome. If you rate or critique

harshly or wish to make an observation, please submit a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your photographic knowledge to

help improve my photography. Thanks! Enjoy! john

I'm surprised you did not upload this earlier. No doubt one of the best portraits you have ever displayed. This must be one of several. I love the angle at which you shot this, that lines intimately with the angle at which the light falls on him.

I'd like to know how to keep images this crisp...I have rarely managed it, it ever. A combination of high ISO and shutter speed, perhaps? Regards.

As I noted earlier, I do not always review my downloads, especially when I am tired and pushed for other reasons, such as traveling or exhausted.  This was from a mixture of those reasons, and I shoot so much, it's OK if I don't review for some time.  See the life of Garry Winogrand, who died with so many undeveloped rolls and unreviewed contact sheets; sometimes the review task gets better with time -- I learned that from him.

I don't always like his 'edgy' photography, but from an intellectual and verbal standpoint, he was a great spokesman for his view of photography.

This is ISO 200 at about 1/13 of a second. I'm a steady holder, and the low number ISO allowed for full detail to be captured, plus mostly I got his action stopped for a fraction of a second, a hard thing to do when a subject is talking.

I'm so glad you like this one.

There are more good ones in the numerous downloads, but I'm making new ones too now.

Thanks in part to YOU, starting a few days ago.  I ain't lost my touch either; it anything it's sharper.

john

John (Crosley)

This is a very interesting moment of  this talk and a very natural and real.

A very realistic portrait!

Thanks for the info on the ISO and shutter speed. I can never attain this sharpness at 1/13sec; I wold probably choose higher ISO and shutter speeds.

Please do not thank me for what has happened. It just worked out that way. If I am not able to do anything some day, I won't be. It just happened I was able to then. Let us not allude to this any further. But from what you have written, I gather you have got back to what you do best...I'm glad about that.

Regards.

This actually is an older capture - one which I just found in reviewing some what older captures, and I was delighted by how good it looked.

It also looks wonderful in color, with him bathed in yellow light from the lamp, left, so it's one of those photos that looks good in color and black and white - a relative rarity.

He was born in 1925 according to Wikipedia, so you can imagine his age when taken two years ago; he's held his years wonderfully, hasn't he?

Nice guy, too.

I'm so glad you enjoyed this one; I aim to please.

john

John (Crosley)

I've never been one to try to be an ingrate; pardon me for saying publicly what I felt.

I am only so happy to see your wonderful comments accompany my photos -- they give heft and depth and add substance to what I often see as more pedestrian efforts.  In other words, they help me 'see' what I have 'seen' but in often a more complex or insightful way.  I find that extremely helpful and challenging, for which you are owed great thanks.  Your comments always are welcome, as I've stated many times.

Yes, I'm doing what it is I do best, thankfully.

john

John (Crosley)

Wonderful image!

Take care,

Mário

Thank you for the compliment.

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I was reading a book 'Digital Photography for Dummies' or a similar title.

One of its main points was to go through your captures, select the best, then discard the rest.

I often take the best that I see at the time, or just pass them by for later, then forget about them.

If I discarded the rest, the top one-third of my portfolio would have been discarded long ago.

It's those potential discards which one 'saw' with the camera and lens that one often cannot get 'in synch' with when it comes to posting, but later turn out to be among the very best when viewed with newfound knowledge -- maybe after viewing another photographer/artist's work, or seeing opther genres more 'in tune' with what you were seeing and realizing what you 'saw' then had more worth than you realized when you reviewed.  I've been in that situation numerous times, so I have a policy of almost never discarding . . . . which makes hard disk drive manufacturers very, very happy.

Take heed:  the ones you thought might be good but were 'edgy' and on review you thought you'd discard may turn out to be tomorrow's winners.

(Not this one, however, it was a winner from the start; it just got shunted aside and never reviewed.)

Thanks for taking the time to pass on your kind thoughts.

john

John (Crosley)