Archives for the month of: March, 2010

As Tall As Lions @ House of Blues

March 11, 10 //

This was the first time I saw/heard As Tall As Lions, and I was impressed. I was very skeptical when I saw all the gear and aix members onstage, because, in my experience, large bands with a lot of instruments usually translates into a racket or just a cluttered stage where half the members stand there and play the same notes (and thus don’t add anything to the music). However, As Tall As Lions did a great job balancing everything, and every member brought something to the show.

The show is upbeat, fun, and while they play music that is approachable and likable to the masses, they still have that indie band feel. As Tall As Lions was probably my favorite find from Twisted.

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As Tall As Lions @ House of Blues (Twisted)

Ha Ha Tonka @ Subterranean

March 9, 10 //

Ha Ha Tonka is always fantastic, like I mentioned in my last post about them.

This set, aside from being long and including some songs I hadn’t heard before, also included an impromptu guest appearance by some of the Treaty of Paris guys that were in attendance – this whole show had a the feeling of a great party.

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Ha Ha Tonka @ Subterranean

Advanced (Sort Of) Concert Photo Editing

March 8, 10 //

It’s been a while since I’ve a tutorial of any sort, so I thought I’d expand on my one-minute edit and do something a little more advanced. For this, the screenshots you will see are from Adobe CameraRaw and Photoshop CS4 because that was what I had open, generally I would probably do most of this in Lightroom with a splash of CS4 – however, this tutorial does also work for LR, the tools are just in a slightly different format in LR.

This tutorial really focuses on some tools to recover detail and fix color washes. The other night, I was shooting a show that had intense color washes of every color – green, blue, magenta, red, etc. It was hard to meter for, but worse than that, the photos were just flat since everything was a monotone of the current wash color. (more…)