Calm Before the Storm

One more from a week ago when I was photographing the band for our churches college and young adult ministry called The Gathering. They took the show on the road so to speak and was doing a service at one of the local colleges. I was over before the service to see how the light would be and once again it was absolutely horrible. Dim room lit by bright background lights. Oh well high ISO and poorly lit faces for the most part. I was going to be able to use flash for a very short while so I had to nail down the shots I wanted very quickly.

The image above is from the pre-show set-up and everyone had taken off except Bob who is a fantastic guitar player. Without being amped Bob just was getting into the music very softly and when I saw this in my minds eye I knew it would make a great image. I shot it with the 5D2 with an EF 16-35 f/2.8L USM lens mounted. The specs are an ISO of 5000, 1/40 at f/4. Post was all done in Lightroom using corrected white balance (did I say the lighting was absolutely horrible), and some pulls on a gradients that dropped the exposure 2 stops on the top and 3.5 on the bottom. What a tool to modify the light to something that gives a sweet mood.

Speaking of Calm Before the Storm, we are heading out to Maryland this week for the expected arrival of grand baby number one. If I am a little sporadic here on the blog this week you will know why.

Take care and I'll cya... Hmm... some time in the next few days... Doug