JKay: Bon Iver , Miami Beach
I gave myself a mini-assignment at the Bon Iver concert at the Fillmore last week: Try to make interesting frames, no matter how many people are standing in front of me. I brought my Leica point-and-shoot and used the zoom and the "high grain" setting (at 1600 iso) to shoot in the low and flashing light. The biggest struggle I had was holding the frame steady as the light changed and the people in front of me moved around. Though the zoom got me closer to the musicians, I found that pulling back to a wider frame held things more steady and exposed more of the contrast between the bright stage lights and the darkened stage. By going wide, I could fill the frame with more information, even when there was less light. Instead of making portraits of the musicians, I tried to capture images that reflected the atmosphere of Bon Iver's show, particularly in the moments when individual performers took the spotlight and everything else on stage faded away.
I gave myself a mini-assignment at the Bon Iver concert at the Fillmore last week: Try to make interesting frames, no matter how many people are standing in front of me. I brought my Leica point-and-shoot and used the zoom and the "high grain" setting (at 1600 iso) to shoot in the low and flashing light. The biggest struggle I had was holding the frame steady as the light changed and the people in front of me moved around. Though the zoom got me closer to the musicians, I found that pulling back to a wider frame held things more steady and exposed more of the contrast between the bright stage lights and the darkened stage. By going wide, I could fill the frame with more information, even when there was less light. Instead of making portraits of the musicians, I tried to capture images that reflected the atmosphere of Bon Iver's show, particularly in the moments when individual performers took the spotlight and everything else on stage faded away.
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