Counting Crows Adam Duritz

This is cool. This is like one of those shots you see underwater where half the lens is above the sea and the other half is below. You can see Adam in the right side of the frame at the piano past her reflection. I love the way her smile is doubled by the reflected image.Here he is taking a bow at the end of the show facing the people who watched it at the end of the show.

Abbie at The Counting Crows

Likes lots of little kids Abbie was all over the place and refused to smile most of the time, especially when she saw a camera. I was fine with that once I saw her striking this pose. This was at the Counting Crows show at Delta360 in midtown, last night.

Barney

The Barnster celebrated his 20th birthday on Saturday and I was there to document it all. His legions of fan’s necessitated a bodyguard or two.

Gizellabelle and a friend at Cielo

Not last night. Still cool. Really long exposure to bring out the red in the bushes. Two hotties out for a night on the town at Cielo during Kerri Mason's party there.

Although this wasn't technically last night, it was this weekend. I've been using alot of available light as usual buyt really loved the way the two band members bodies from the Klaxons juxtaposed in this shot and the lighting was beautiful. Webster Hall on Friday.

This actually was last night and again all available light. Years ago I'd shot Mishell and gone to an after party she was having at someones house. There had been signs all over the venue not to use flash, and miraculously, no one. Miraculous because as it turned out if they had Mishell would have gone into an epileptic seizure right there on stage. I know this because later on that night at the party I was in a different room from her and shot a snapshot with my point and shoot and she had a freaking seizure. I feel bad about it to this day. Anyway this shot at Hiro was during one of the last songs. There was just one moment when the position of the light and the position of her hand lined up properly so that her body would block the light from completely flaring my lens and this is what worked out.

Rafi from Miriams, also last night. Part of a story I've been working on for The New York Post.
I'm using two lights here. A ring flash and hot shoe flash. A main near my lens and a second one off on the right that's a stop or two brighter and triggered remotely. Gives me a nice modeling effect and fits inside my camera bag.

I shot this second one because I decided I wasn't crazy about the brick and this cool curtain was available. I like the atmosphere it generates better than the brick and also gives my editors more to choose from.

Can't sleep at 3:50

Besides having various bad dreams about Dante catastrophes and the very real catastrophe of losing Lulu for most of the afternoon today it was hectic in other ways. I shot two jobs one after the other and they overlapped a bit. A guy named Manny finally called around 5 to ask if I'd lost a dog. Thank god he wasn't someone who just decided it would be funny to call the guy who'd posted fliers all over 14th street that afternoon. He showed up an hour later with his wife and kid (who'd grown attached to Lulu in the few hours they had her) who was crying and wouldn't take the $100 I tried to give him. I would have shoved it in his pocket but I got the sense that it would have insulted him. So I thanked him for the 15th time and gave him one of the Lost Dog fliers I'd plastered all over the East Village.
I just discovered the A Photo Editor Blog which has almost immediately become my favorite piece of reading material. It was mentioned on the daily digest I get from Editorial Photo . I think his (her?) link to Sye Williams' film is one of the most brilliant pieces of marketing I've ever seen by Adobe or any other company. Not only are you looking at Adobe's logo the whole time your watching the video (attention You Tube, maybe don't have commercials in front of a short, just superimposed somewhere in the frame) (nice work Sye) but at the end the thing dissolves into a button that takes you right to Adobe's Lightroom site, which of course I clicked because I've been so curious about Lightroom for so long. Even better (!) there's a link for a free trial! I've been hoping to try out Lightroom since I heard about it but had never seen a trial version available. I'm waiting until I have a few days to devote to working with the program before I download it. So I guess I'll never get to download it. ha.



Last nights photo;
Biblical menu at Miriam's.
Eve's Salad.