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
I’m not much of a photographer, so I can’t really comment on that…
But I do have to say you did Jenny justice.
Thank you! Here are a few more, in better quality.
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–riney
This is probably going to seem really random, but do you happen to know why Blake Sennett would have a Norwegian flag on his guitar? It sort of has me intrigued.. And the fact that you posted this on June 7th 2005, the exact day of the 100th anniversary of the split of the union between Sweden and Norway was a bit of a coincidence :p
Those are two great questions that I sadly don’t have the answer to! Maybe subconciously I’m a historian or something.
Be sure to check out the links in the comment immediately above yours. They point to much better scans of those pictures plus a lot more. The ones in this post are wretched.
Thanks for stopping by!
–riney