A fun pic. Paul
> On Jan 19, 2020, at 3:40 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > A couple weeks ago, at a job about 50 miles from home, one of the employees > was talking about playing a gig at a venue a mile from my house, they were > the opening act. Long story short, I’ve known Ehrin, the guitarist for Dub > Congress, the headlining band, since about 1976 (I think he was about 8) when > his mom dated my dad. The lighting at this venue has always sucked for > photographing bands. They use highly saturated lights, with regular tungsten > only on center stage. I did enjoy the music though, it’s been a while since > I’ve seen a reggae band (much less two of them) play. Now that pot is legal > in California, the ambience of the room was nostalgic of my college years. > > I was bracketing with the silly hope of being able to combine images so the > colored lights in the background wouldn’t be totally blown out. As you well > know, HDR doesn’t work particularly well when things move around in the > frame. Combine that with oversaturated lighting and the results can be > rather entertaining. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/49406270081/in/album-72157712729213021/ > > For those interested in the full set. This is the opening band, The Rudians. > Gio, the lead guitarist is the one I met at the jobsite: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157712734198048 > > The weird looking guitarish instrument is a 5 string headless bass. > > The second set is Dub Congress. Ehrin (in baseball cap) plays lead guitar. > In the small world department, when a friend said that his son in law Aaron > was in the band Dub Congress, I thought it was an even smaller world, since I > couldn’t hear the difference in spelling. Aaron is on drums. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157712729213021 > > Another frame I particularly like from this show is of the MC Rocky, who > Ehrin says has been MCing reggae shows in the area for well over 40 years. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/49406468697/in/album-72157712729213021/ > > Now I need to get around to processing the photos from the swing band I was > dancing to last night. > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com > > > > > -- > 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.
