The Chandler
Center for the Arts was the setting for a concert featuring country music
greats Aaron Tippin, Sammy Kershaw, and Joe Diffie.
Before the
concert, we went to the SanTan Brewing
Company, just south of the concert arena.
First off, yes the beer was tasty.
I had the hefeweizen which is a muddy wheat beer. Many Americans are turned off to the dirty
look of the beer, but I find it quite refreshing. The food was quite good too. French fries never tasted as good. This blog is not about the brew pub, but I
was very excited to visit this place as I had done a photo essay of brew pubs
last summer in Santa Fe and wanted to do one for my home state of Arizona. The manager gave me a road map to the so-called
Arizona Ale Trail, which will be quite
helpful to me this coming summer. If you
are in the Chandler area, I strong suggest you visit!
Now back to
the concert.
This venue
presented some obvious lighting challenges.
Most of these concerts won’t let a photographer take in “professional”
cameras, so I took my pocket Canon S100 with me. I have a lot of control over aperture, ISO,
and shutter speed. I also can shoot in
raw with this camera. Still, you are
going to see some areas that are overexposed and some under exposed. It’s pretty hard to rescue that with
Photoshop CS6 or any of the plugins I use such as Nik, OnOne, and Topaz.
I edited all
photos at first in Lightroom 4.
Sometimes all I needed to do was crop and touch on clarity. Other times I used Silver Efex Pro from Nik
to convert to black and white or OnOne’s Perfect black and white on the final
goodbye shot of the three country crooners.
Next photo
adventure up for me is the Cave Creek Rodeo!
Look for a new blog post soon.
And
remember, Just Shut Up and Shoot!
Jim
Patterson
Click HERE to see all the photos from the Roots and Boots
concert
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