Photo Gallery: 12 Musicians of Christmas 2006 - Batch 3
Posted in Friends / Music / Photography by CujoJanuary 5th, 2007 - 2:5 AM
So I was a little delayed with updating the rest of this section but the cycle begins again.
Above is Al Wood playing with the Woodsmen (Jay Case, Ed Young, Frank Deresti, Lindsay Pugh and Cliff Alloy). Al came from Ottawa I believe to participate in the 12 Musicians of Christmas and his set was great (just like the rest of them of course).
Up next was Rachelle Deresti who amazed all in attendence with her skills on the keys being accompanied by Frank Deresti and Cliff Alloy. This was the first time I’ve seen her play and I suggest others get out to her shows as she’s starting to perform a growing list of dates in the past couple of months (I think I’m making a lot of this up now).
And closing out this batch is Craig West back on electric guitar. He had Jay Case on bass , his usual drummer Ed Young and no Frank Deresti (I think he was one of two sets not featuring Frank, take that Frank). With the revised lineup of Startlefish Craig has been playing bass but he liked breaking out of that beat and getting to hammer on the electric guitar for a bit (now I’m just trying to talk music lingo but it’s late and I’m making a fool of myself).
Photo Gallery: 12 Musicians of Christmas 2006 - Batch 3 (46)
There’s one or two more batches still coming. Damn this show and my millions of photos. Let me know what you think though, I know you’re out there.
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January 6th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
I do enjoy hammering things … be they guitars, nails, or whatever … awesome pics once again Curt …
January 7th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
Nice pics! How about one or two crowd shots? I like to see pics of people enjoying themselves.
January 7th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
Thanks Craig and Ludger…
As far as crowd/audience pics I’m saying don’t hold your breath. I have multple reasons for not shooting them which include: the audience didn’t go to the bar to be caught on camera and put on some guys blogs, I generally “okay” it with the musicians, it’s now at the point where the majority of the guys you see in these galleries know I’ll be at the show and know I’m there shooting them. The last part of that sentence is another reason, I’m there shooting the bands, sometimes asked to go by the various artists etc, so I’ll do my best to shoot them. If they ask me to take some audience shots I’ll do it but otherwise my lens will stay focused on them. Lighting is another issue, the stage isn’t lit the greatest and it takes some effort to get some half decent shots, switching it around and shooting into the dark bar becomes a bit harder as well and any minimal movement (subject or by me with the camera) will probably create large blur. And lastly (as I ran on) if you “shoot” for a person trying to sell “hits” on their site or sell newspapers they are required to take audience shots in the hopes that audience members shot will go through their site/paper to see if they are featured. I’m here to feature the artists and I’m not selling anything either so I don’t need to stoop to those tactics, and like how I began, if I go to a place to watch a performance I don’t enter the place wanting to be photographed, it might just be me though but that’s the mindset I take when shooting so I stay away from them — plus let’s admit it, most times come 12 or 1 at the bar a lot of audience aren’t in their most photogenic states.
Although it does raise a question, do people want me shooting them? I’ll continue to say no, but I do shoot them if they ask when I’m out.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:50 am
It’s a grey area. I have found that most people are cool with being photographed, but all you need is one person to flip out over appearing in the fine pages of Better Than Crabs and you may have a mess to deal with. For the most part, this is why I don’t put crowd pictures on Startlefish.com very often.