Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Yep, Larry, I had a quick look at that gallery, and enjoyed it.
Thank you for sharing!
There are some interesting photos there. I think musicians' portraits
are among the best photos in the set.
Thanks, I might be starting to get the hang of shooting musicians.
My main comment is similar to the one I gave before: several photos
could benefit from a tighter crop. This is primarily for those photos that
contain some dark "faceless" audience in addition to the main "focal
points"
(I remember several photos of the stage taken from far in the back).
I'll see what I can do about tightening some of them up.
Also, there were a few photos (jam circle or performance/competition)
that seemed to be less then perfect (soft or noisy)...
The jam circle was tough, poor light, fast action and my camera kept
freezing up because the buffer was full. I think I caught some nice
moments, but, yeah, technical difficulties.
I need to do some side by side with the fa50 and da55. I think the hood
for the 55 vignettes a bit on the K-1 and I wanted a hood so I swapped
back with Nicole who was shooting with the K-5. Has anyone noticed a
difference between the two for flare and haze?
Re: quantity.
I know how it works with event photos (dance events, kids events...)
After a big event you put out a large set for the community (where
people basically find themselves and their friends). The intent is
different from when people do it on PDML. For that reason I usually post
only 1 or a few singled-out photos to the list in such cases, - those
that are the most interesting in my opinion, or those that I am curious
to hear people's opinion about (might not be the best from the set).
I usually try to pick one or two PESOs, and post the album as a "by the
way". This gallery is way trimmed down from facebook. If you're
interested, ask Jane for the public links for everything.
That's what I've been teaching in my "technical communication" courses:
The rule #1: "the audience". Before deciding anything else about your
communication, realize who the audience is going to be: everything else
is dictated by that. :-)
Exactly, I should have made it more clear that the PDML wasn't the
target audience for this gallery.
Curiously, - I almost didn't find any familiar faces, just a few (very
few) faces that I think I vaguely remember. I guess the community
changes rather quickly...
We actually have several swing dance communities in the Bay Area. The SF
community is more tied in with the national/world community, with the
East Bay a little less so. This event is put on by the folks who run
Wednesday Night Hop, which has been the big South Bay venue for about 10
years. They started out in Sunnyvale, the building was closed down, they
moved to Mountain View, and about a year ago the studio they were in was
torn down so the landlord could build more profitable commercial space,
and now they are in Palo Alto. Their focus seems to be on a bit more up
tempo stuff, and for this event they really like to bring in big name
jazz performers. (Igor probably knows most of this) Norma Miller (the
queen of swing) danced at the Savoy with Frankie Manning and has been in
show business for decades. Chazz, is Frankie's son and performed in
Norma's troop for years. BTW, he had a stroke about 10 months ago, and
this is his first time teaching since, there's a go fund me for him.
I'd never met Sonny Allen (cowboy hat) before, but he was dancing at the
Savoy in the 50s-60s. Chester Whitmore (crazy expressions) is quite a
kick. He learned tap dancing from one of the Nicholas brothers, and in
the panel interview someone asked him what it was like to work on La La
Land, and he had some very amusing stories about being brought in on
short notice for choreography and dancing on it.
At late night on Friday I was commenting to Ken Watanabe (he runs lindy
in the park) that there weren't a lot of us old time locals there this
weekend.
But yeah, some dancers spawn and drop out of the scene, others just get
old and tired or break down, a few of us just refuse to grow up despite
being old, tired and broken.
Larry Colen Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:37:26 -0800 wrote:
No worries. The album wasn't put up for the PDML, but I thought that a
few of you, such as Igor, might be amused by the set. If anyone wanted
to comment on a particular photo that catches their eye, good or bad,
that would be great. Similarly, if someone sees and ongoing trend (way
too much haze and flare from the FA 50/1.4) and wants to comment on
that, awesome. Hopefully, I'll have some more time for picking out a
couple of shots before heading back up next week to Oregon to help mom
move from the rehab facility to a more extended care unit.
Bruce Walker wrote:
I concur. If you are up against time constraints then simply restrain
yourself until you have a few minutes to select a couple of the
strongest shots. Dump-and-run is not a winning strategy. :)
Otherwise it's a bit like: hey guys, here's a large pile of random
pixels (300 million). I am under a time constraint so I didn't
assemble then into coherent images, but have a look anyway.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Ken Waller<kwaller at peoplepc.com>
wrote:
Larry, I'm just not gonna invest that much time to review these images.
You really need to edit the down to the best if you want constructive
comments.
YMMV. ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Colen<lrc at red4est.com>
Subject: GESO Swingin' at the Savoy
I was at a dance workshop last weekend, here is a fairly large (115
photos) album up on flickr:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157677458704963/
I apologize for the size, but I'm up against a bunch of time
constraints
and didn't have time to make it much smaller. It was really nice, they
contacted me like last November to ask if I could take photos. Nicole
may also post a few at some point.
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