Do you have any good performance photos that you've taken? Let's seem them -

These black and white photos are from an exhibit that we sold to a music club and were part of the decor - we used to have press passes for both the Jazz and Folk Festivals - being at the very edge of the stage and that close to the performers was as great as the music - nice work if you can get it if you're an afficianado :)

At times it was also like using Marshall towers as headphones - in other words, right up my alley :uhuh:

The late Grover Washington, Jr., Herbie Hancock and Chuck Mangione and Chick Corea at Newport, 1988:

Robert Cray, Taj Mahal and BB King from the Folk Festival:

Chuck Mangione and Dr. John:

nice shots. Never dawned on me to take any pictures at any of the shows I was at. Wish i had .

And another shot that was to be used as a huge backlit transparency at the club behind the performers on the stage.

This was shot in-studio on 4x5 transparency film with a view camera - multiple exposures - 8 or 10 exposures or 'pops' on the same piece of film to get the desired effects on the trumpet and the blue glow in the upper left.

Believe me it takes a lot of juice to make a black felt background turn royal blue with a Rosco gel over the strobe head...

I then scanned and imported it into Photoshop to clean up the highlights and add the graphics.

nice shots. Never dawned on me to take any pictures at any of the shows I was at. Wish i had .

Thanks, Paul -

I think cameras are prohibited at many shows now - I may try to get my press passes back again for the Newport Festivals this year, though - old Uncle Crafty is going digital :eek5:

It's a pain in the rump using real film anymore, developing and scanning - but the big plus is the monstrous file sizes for me - and always having a tangible hard copy of the image.

It'll be fun to play with if nothing else - yup, I'm finally gonna drag myself kicking and screaming into the 21st Century in terms of image capture :hihi:

Been doing the PS thing for quite a while on the other hand.