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A couple of weekends ago I photographed the Sydney Blues Festival. Here are a few of the images:


Ian Hirst of the Backsliders (formerly of Midnight Oil).

More images (another 19); Band website; Videos.

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Eight Ball Aitken from North Queensland at the end of his performance.

More Images (another 13); Website; Video.

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Dave Gleeson of the Angels, depicted here giving a somewhat surreal performance.

More images (another 40); Website; Video.

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Ian Moss, former lead guitarist of Cold Chisel.

More images (another 36); Website.

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Summary Page on my Blog for the Festival.

Links for Performances by Band.

First and last images - crackers! will have a browse thru your festival pictures soon..

The first image is actually really sweet, I would just dial down your watermark opacity, i found it hit me in the face like a wet fish then I really enjoyed the image!

I don't think you could set up studio lighting to do better than whats in those shots

Thanks Gerry.

The watermark in the first image is bright because the background is so dark; in more high key images it can almost disappear. It's a tradeoff I'm inclined to wear. Adjusting the opacity individually for each image would get too hard.

Yeah, there's nothing like good lighting to work with. As I remarked to someone at the time, taking photos in the daytime is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.

Murray

These are all interesting images, but that last one is the ace in this pack. There's a nice intimacy to it somehow,

Thanks, Peter. Well it was intimate. I was about three to six feet away from him with a 50mm f1.4 lens (though f6.3).

Murray there are some quite nice images in those galleries, a few that really hit the spot for me..

I prefer the colour version here as well...

There are lots I could have chosen. The initial four images above are not supposed to represent the best four images. For a start, I excluded any I had posted on my blog pages. One good thing, though. I've been at it for a long time and I think I'm still improving.

That last one of Mason Rack. I'd been getting in close at the front edge of the stage with the 14-24mm and then changed to the 85mm f1.4. Then he came at me in fun with the guitar, giving me a photo op. I did the best I could with the 85mm then hurriedly changed the lens back. This was the next shot, a completely different composition but maybe from inches away.