Vanessa Raspa

[aim54x]

Last night I was out and about, watching Vanessa Raspa and The Zombie Cats perform. A colleague of mine is a friend of Vanessa's and was taking some photos on her behalf, given the license to shoot, I took advantage and let loose with the D700 and my Micro Nikkor 105mm VR.

[Remorhaz]

I love the texture of that smoke in #1 Cam - very nice (you might be able to crop out that person in the lower right or at least burn them down a bit)?

#3 is my next pick and even though (and perhaps because) it's mostly gone to black I like it

#4 not so much - there's eye contact but it looks unnatural I reckon and whilst I love bokeh, that orb is a bit much

[aim54x]

Thanks Rodney....that orb isnt a bokeh artifact, the venue had a series of large lighting globes hanging at the back of the stage.

[Reschsmooth]

Number 2 and 3 are exceptional. Like Rodney, I think the last looks a little set up even thoguht it is likely to only be a chance shot.

[surenj]

Cameron, this series is superb. You must have found ya mojo!

#1 (especially) and #2 are looking super duper. I quite like the OOF head on the #1. You could even try BW of the first and see what you can come up with.

[Matt. K]

I love the tonality and the atmpsphere of #2! It's georgious!

[aim54x]

Thanks guys! I took home 200 odd frames and culled back to about 45 frames to keep. These are some of my favourites from the night. I will have a poke around with a mono version of #1, and some crop/burn of both #1 and #2 as well. If anyone wants to have a crack at processing please post it up!

[biggerry]

all nice images cam, good atmosphere, great lighting and you have conveyed all this very well. Top stuff.

[zafra52]

#3 is my favourite of the set