It's been a while...

[bigtwinky]

I haven't been in TPF in god knows how long... I think it said 74,000 new posts. haha.

I've been ultra busy with photography, so pretty much all forums I visited have been neglected. I've shot a few weddings, done some maternity, a few more urban and cityscapes. But the one thing that has taken alot of my time has been concert photography. Working with a startup web media, getting accreditations, shooting, posting, social media....man, who said doing this was glamorous? In the last 5 weeks, with music festival season in Montreal, I've shot 70 bands, 7,000 images and about 145GB of data. From jazz greats, heavy metal, pop, rock...

Thought I would share a few with you. Would love some feedback, if you should chose to give some

Hope you like, and I look forward to posting more


1- Tony Bennett

2- Bootsy Collins

3- Dee Dee Bridgewater

4- Blackguard

5- Disturbed

And yep, I still keep a bit a photojournalism, even when shooting shows

6- Crowd surfing

7- Metalheads

 

[e.rose]

LOVE EM!

The first 3 are my favorites. I *love* the composition and lighting in the 3rd!!

Seems as though your time away was super productive :sillysmi:

Oh... and to answer your question from the other thread... no... no they didn't ban me yet.

 

[bigtwinky]

LOVE EM!

The first 3 are my favorites. I *love* the composition and lighting in the 3rd!!

Seems as though your time away was super productive :sillysmi:

Oh... and to answer your question from the other thread... no... no they didn't ban me yet.

You can really tell the difference between an artist and a performer. Some people are awesome on stage. Dee Dee Bridgewater was one of them. We had 2 songs to shoot her, from further back, no up front shots, all photogs on the same side. She spent the better part of those two songs on the side we were at and was a true classy lady,

 

[e.rose]

LOVE EM!

The first 3 are my favorites. I *love* the composition and lighting in the 3rd!!

Seems as though your time away was super productive :sillysmi:

Oh... and to answer your question from the other thread... no... no they didn't ban me yet.

You can really tell the difference between an artist and a performer. Some people are awesome on stage. Dee Dee Bridgewater was one of them. We had 2 songs to shoot her, from further back, no up front shots, all photogs on the same side. She spent the better part of those two songs on the side we were at and was a true classy lady,

She looks it! I would have loved to have been there.

You can just SEE her soulfulness seeping out of that image!

 

[bigtwinky]

I put up gallery on mah website of her stuff
Dee Dee Bridgewater - PierreBPhoto

She actually messaged me and said she loved the images... And we know once a client (even if she wasn't a client, lets just call her that for now) tells you that, it means you have made it!

 

[e.rose]

I put up gallery on mah website of her stuff
Dee Dee Bridgewater - PierreBPhoto

She actually messaged me and said she loved the images... And we know once a client (even if she wasn't a client, lets just call her that for now) tells you that, it means you have made it!

Beautiful work!

If I can make images *half* as beautiful as that some day, I'll be happy.

Seriously... really nice work.

I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK!!!! :hug::

 

[bigtwinky]

Considering February I was shooting friends in small bars for a beer, and 3 months later I'm shooting 3 day festivals, I'm glad I've progressed. Still have ALOT to learn though, but loving the ride.
Thanks for the props!

 

[pgriz]

Very nice, Pierre. Good shots. Glad to see you posting again. Looking forward to more stuff (and yes, I'll explore the blog)...

 

[bigtwinky]

I so wish I had time to blog more. I've actually been doing submissions for This Week in Photography podcast's website. So my writing goes there now.

Good to see ya around pgriz

 

[oldmacman]

Terrific work. Nice control of lighting, sharpness and DOF. Love 2 and 3... just stunning clarity and nice composition.

 

[bigtwinky]

Thanks bud

 

[Derrel]

So you got laid again....good for you!@!!@!!! (kidding!)

I stopped by the Dee Dee Bridgewater gallery--some good stuff in there!

 

[Shoal]

I like them. Especially the second one!

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Wow, very nice. Good to see you've been putting your time to good use.

I did have to go and check the Dee Dee gallery to figure out the eye thing...

 

[bigtwinky]

lol Derrel

Thanks for the welcomes backs.

cloud...the eye thing, yeah. The lashes were huge! She also had these giant heels on, someone in the audience yelled out "nice shoes" between song 1 and song 2, which lead to some great comedy on stage... like I said, classy lady, she was awesome.

It's funny what one can do with patience and practice... and spending more time shooting than posting on forums