Belting it Out

Photo of the Day

Saturday night at the Taste of Tippecanoe I had some fun trying some new things. I really don’t shoot concerts very much, but with all of the acts on display that day I had a little time for some practice. As the light was fading a new act went up on the Depot Stage. It was the Hunter Smith Band. When I first heard the name I thought of the former Notre Dame and Indianapolis Colts punter right away. With the last name Smith though it could have been anyone. It turned out to actually be Hunter ‘the punter’ Smith. The light was just right to try a couple of things with. I knelt down on the right side of the stage to get a couple of shots. As I have said before I have not really shot concerts before. I did what I thought would look good, and I immediately noticed something when I put all of the files onto my computer. I will get into that more in the technical section.

Technical Data

The thing that I noticed was that for some reason I fell in love with the wide shot showing the entire artist. I did this all day long. This goes back to my completionist notions where I have to see the entire person. I thought that since I had great access that I should have come away with some good close ups. I did not though, and I decided to crop the image to do what I should have done with my feet and my zoom on the scene. I really want to get to another concert to try a couple of things with some close up compositions. With summer in full swing and festivals everywhere I think that I should be able to get my wish fairly quickly. Other than the crop though I only did some minor adjustments to the sliders. I did add a slight vignette though to darken the edges.