Somehow, contrary to logic, the color shots from the Rilo Kiley show came out dramatically better than the black and whites. I wasn’t quite expecting this – I’ve never shot color at a concert before, but for some reason I kept screwing up the metering and overexposing them. Anyway, these are some keepers from the test scans I had the lab do. I could do better, so I’m probably going to order a film scanner here in a bit. It’d pay for itself in scanning fees in two concerts. I hope I can rescue some of the black and whites with some judicious photoshopping, one in particular, especially; I caught a fantastic pose but blew the exposure. I’m also thinking I could use a light telephoto lens for this kind of work; I can’t fill the frame quite like I want to with my 50mm. Maybe the 85mm 1.8D? (Or, preferably, the 85mm 1.4D, but that’s pricey glass)

Blake Sennett and Jenny Lewis

Blake Sennett, Mike Bloom, and Pierre de Reeder

Jenny Lewis