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Jyrock 2007, Friday

published by Kalle Björklid on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 6:42am

I shot the first day of Jyrock, the oldest indoor music festival of Finalnd. It's a sort of indie-thing, kept in a rather small venue (two floors), organized by the Student union of Jyväskylä University.

A few interesting performers there...

1. Alamaailman vasarat

2. Alamaailman vasarat

3. Rubik

4. Magenta Skycode

5. Magenta Skycode

6. Keuhkot

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Comment & Critique - Live, Backstage, Promo, etc

Submitted by gloubi on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 7:08am.

fantastic composition on the #1 !!!

but I wonder where did you focus ? in the middle of the instrument ?
some dust (white points in the background) you could eliminate...

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Submitted by Kalle Björklid on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 7:14am.

gloubi wrote:
fantastic composition on the #1 !!!

but I wonder where did you focus ? in the middle of the instrument ?

Thanks, I spent what seemed like half a gig hunting for that photo :). Don't know where the focus is (I think I focused on his face, then recompsed and waited for the moment). It is anyways soft - shutter speed only 1/10 s - but I thought it was worth displaying anyways.

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Submitted by Rene Damkot on Mon, 04/23/2007 - 8:30am.

Looks like you almost got hit in #1 ;)
I like the idea, but the BG isn't supportive: The rail in the BG is interfering with the instrument and the drumer is a bit too light...
#2 doesn't work for me. Nothing special.
#3 is nice. I like that you can *just* make out the audience. I would crop off a bit of the top. But that might be just me disliking a square aspect ratio ;)
#4 is nice, but I like #5 better. Reminds me of Andy Warhol somehow.
#6 is very nice. I would crop a bit off the botoom and left, to loose the mic stand, and get a bit less central composition. Did the guy bring hi own lighting?

I think #5 and 6 are best of the set.

Submitted by Kalle Björklid on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 8:48am.

René Damkot wrote:
I like the idea, but the BG isn't supportive: The rail in the BG is interfering with the instrument and the drumer is a bit too light...

Agree with the rail-thing. I thought about cloning it out, but couldn't be bothered before. Maybe I'll revisit this one (and manually sharpen for web while at it).

René Damkot wrote:
#6 is very nice. I would crop a bit off the botoom and left, to loose the mic stand, and get a bit less central composition. Did the guy bring hi own lighting?

Yup... He has two light sources in that... thing. The one in this picture was flashing, so I had to take number of pictures to have one acceptable (light on and other aspects ok-ish as well). I'll put up one pic with that other light source on (it overpowered all the other lights, shining on his face, so the result looks very different compared to this one).

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Submitted by bmoguy on Wed, 04/25/2007 - 9:26am.

Rene already wrote pretty much what I was thinking but with more detail. :D
Where differed was in the crop suggestions, I like the current crops of 3 & 6.
I really like the diversity you captured in this set.

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Submitted by Firesoul on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 3:43am.

wooow the first pic is amazing, this is such a great angle, really interesting!

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Submitted by livewire-photography on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 6:20am.

Kalle 1 and 5 are amazing dude.
Nice going

Submitted by emt on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 6:32pm.

livewire-photography wrote:
Kalle 1 and 5 are amazing dude.
Nice going

What James said.

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