From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V10 #103 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, April 25 2005 Volume 10 : Number 103 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: All this stuff/Camera advice from an amatuer [Max Wellhouse ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 02:17:25 -0500 From: Max Wellhouse Subject: Re: All this stuff/Camera advice from an amatuer No, but it WILL look tacky with those stiletto heels of yours. My inexperience with my digital camera really fouled up my Minneapolis concert photos. If your camera is as flexible as mine(Olympus C-5050 5.1 mp), set the ISO to 400 and shoot w/o flash at around 125th of a second and F4. Our theatre allowed non flash photos. Be sure to bracket around those settings as well. You'll need slower shutter speeds for catching the background musicians as the rear of the stage was pretty dim at our venue. My automatic settings were barely giving me 1/20 of a second shutter speeds and you're not going to freeze much action with that. Not sure there's a shutter speed to freeze Mark's right leg as he sorta redefines St. Vidas(Vitus?) Dance, doncha think? I think I could've also changed the light meter program to measure only the very center of the viewfinder so I could spot meter individuals. I'll do better next time. If you have a film camera with some flexibility, use the 400 print film and turn off the flash and play with the above numbers. The only way I've found to get good exposures is to stick the light meter right in someone's face(not gonna happen at most concerts!) and use that info for making your settings. Usually the face tone is used as the middle of the gray scale(I think some call it zone 5) which when read dead center in the middle of the light meter, will give you correct exposure. If you're not sure, it's better to guess than not take pictures. Then you're 100% sure of getting nothing. Most built in flashes only carry 10-20 feet anyway and usually only light up the folks' heads in front of you. I was in the front row of a Linda Rhonstadt concert in 1975 with a manual Olympus OM-1 camera and had success on a few photos with the 125 and F4 settings. Stage lights are incredibly bright and several of my digital pix totally washed out Basia's face when the spotlight was on her. The light ,meter read the whole view finder and averaged the total light reaching the viewfinder leaving the background too dark and Basia overexposed. Good luck shooting!! DM&FS At 07:25 PM 4/23/2005, Somegirl99@aol.com wrote: >Leslie said: >Have fun, you guys going tonight, be sure to send me >your accounts and please don't blind them with your >flashes too much! >I'm jealous of all the cameras. My ticket says "no cameras". If I hide one in >my socks, will the security wand thingy pick it up? > >Jacki ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:21:37 -0400 From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Subject: Sirius session Well, I just got through editing last night's performance on Sirius. (I wanted a CD I can play in the car.) I'm feeling Jim's lament, though: "I wanted more." Not having a chance to attend a concert, I expected this to be some compensation. But the show was only 42 minutes long and contained only 3 songs. I must say, though, the songs they did sounded superb. They had all the tour musicians in the studio and apparently the Sirius record engineers know their stuff because the quality was excellent. It had the feel of a live concert performance without all the extraneous noise. They did Ordinary Day, Say The Words and Ronnie's Samba. About the only thing I was missing was the accordion in Say The Words. All the songs were faithful to the CD. If this is indicative of the touring band, you folks who've seen and will see the tour are very lucky, indeed. They were impressive. There wasn't much in the interview that would have surprised anyone with a casual enough interest in the group. Certainly hardcore list members knew just about everything they talked about. I will have to listen more closely, though, as I kind of skimmed through everything. They spent a lot of time talking about influences on the original incarnation of MB. (Phil H: they even credited Burt Bacharach!) Spent some time talking about 80's music and touched on Basia's solo career only slightly. This was about Matt Bianco, after all. The current version, that is - they ignored Mark Fisher entirely. As you might expect, Basia did most of the talking, but Mark and Danny held their own, also. The interviewer, Paul Cavalconte, probably familiar to list members in NYC, was blown away when Basia mentioned the Aretha Franklin medley they did while on tour years ago because they didn't have enough original material to do. Paul thought they should have released it as a single. Reference was made to Incognito's music (Bluey Maunick and Maysa Leak were recent guests at Sirius), but no one thought to bring up the Kevin Robinson-Ingocnito link. That puzzled me a bit. Interestingly, the show had a couple of glitches. A segment ran out of sequence. The song Ronnie's Samba ran after the the close instead of before. And a countdown, which should have been edited out aired mistakenly. So I compiled my own little bootleg CD today. Even considering it was an analog ingest rather than digital, it sounds great! Dennis ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V10 #103 ****************************