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Underwater Sleeping Society (FIN) @ Lutakko, Jyväskylä, Finl

published by Kalle Björklid on Sun, 03/25/2007 - 5:20pm

Not too many real successes on my scale this time, but I like the first two of these:

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3.

I'd like to have had more pictures of the guy in the first picture, but there just wasn't enough light to stop movement, and other situations would've been dull. I used my primes (f1.4 - f1.8 ), ISO1600, and there wasn't all that much chance for anything less.

I might add a photo or two later on...

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Submitted by bmoguy on Sun, 03/25/2007 - 9:05pm.

I'll agree with you, I like the first 2 the best as well. Good energy, composition in the 1st - it stands out for me among the 3. Might be just too much mic/shadow around his mouth in the 3rd one for me.

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Submitted by Rene Damkot on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 9:12am.

I like #2 best. On #1 I don't like the keyboard player. Bass player is fine, but the second guy 'damages' the image.
On #3 the cieling is interfering with the guitar., and I'd have cropped off a bit bottom and left.

Submitted by Kalle Björklid on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 9:43am.

René Damkot wrote:
I like #2 best. On #1 I don't like the keyboard player. Bass player is fine, but the second guy 'damages' the image.

On small clubs something's gotta give :). Not sure I agree with you, I'm slowly shifting (or drifting) towards liking pictures that have "extra detail" and/or more than one layer to them... Although I'd hope he and his keyboard weren't so bright (I don't think darkening them would make things better as they're burned, and would become flat gray if darkened).

René Damkot wrote:
On #3 the cieling is interfering with the guitar., and I'd have cropped off a bit bottom and left.

You have no idea how much trouble the low, badly finished ceiling is... Smoke is a blessing, lights put on the floor pointing upwards a curse.

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Submitted by Rene Damkot on Mon, 03/26/2007 - 10:29am.

Kalle Björklid wrote:
On small clubs something's gotta give :). Not sure I agree with you, I'm slowly shifting (or drifting) towards liking pictures that have "extra detail" and/or more than one layer to them... Although I'd hope he and his keyboard weren't so bright (I don't think darkening them would make things better as they're burned, and would become flat gray if darkened).

See what you mean on the "lyers" bit, but in this case the guy is a) burned and b) showing his hair instead of face... If it were a face, I'd like it...

Kalle Björklid wrote:
You have no idea how much trouble the low, badly finished ceiling is... Smoke is a blessing, lights put on the floor pointing upwards a curse.

I think I do... I face something similair at Atak, being a ladder and a fuse board when shooting from left or right side of the stage respectively... The fuse board is a reason I hardly shoot from the right side of the stage ;)

Submitted by livewire-photography on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 4:37pm.

Kalle No.3 is sweet, nice set dude.