As Mark said, the background puts the sax player in context (though it -is- ugly). One could try burning in the street by a stop or so, which might preserve the context while being less distracting.
Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Mark C <pdml-m...@charter.net> wrote: > That is an excellent pose! The background doesn't bother me - puts him in > context. > > On 8/23/2015 2:20 PM, frank theriault wrote: >> >> I'm not sure how much I like this one. It's sooooo close. >> >> This guy (and the drummer) ~were~ quite good. First attracted my ear >> with strains of Dizzy Gillespie's ~A Night in Tunisia~, and he >> continued to play lots of Miles and mid-fifties late bebop stuff. >> >> BUT, the light was horribly harsh, and he kept moving from the light >> into the shadows. That moving also made it hard to get him and the >> drummer in the same frame without (to say the least) very distracting >> backgrounds. >> >> Unfortunately this photo has one of those horrid backgrounds, and he's >> in front of the drummer, but this was by far the best pose he "gave >> me" all 15 or 20 minutes I listened: >> >> http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2015/08/come-blow-your-horn.html >> >> I waited to catch it again, constantly moving about to keep things >> nicely framed, but that pose never happened again. So this is it. Hope >> you enjoy. Comments welcome. >> >> cheers, >> >> frank >> > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
