Photographed during Dark Tranquility concert at The Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe, AZ.
Artist is guitarist Martin Henriksson of Dark Tranquility. Dark Tranquility is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. Shot from the edge of stage left, behind crowd barricade.
I hope voters agree with the "partnership" of it -- I got pretty burned on my last submission ("Even") for being borderline DNMC... I wonder how this will do. I had some better sight-lines in this shoot, but something about this side-view just kept drawing me back to it. I expect comments on the sight-line, it's too dark, too grainy, WB is off, slightly oof, etc. -- but I like it, and think all those features give this shot character. I'm trying to get over over-analyzing my entries and "just submitting it," so I'll just submit it and see how it goes...
Shot handheld, 17-55mm/2.8 lens at 55mm, iso 800, 1/30 and f/2.8
RAW/NEF -> Lightroom
Basic:
WB custom (2850K, tint-150)
Exposure +0.80
Fill Light -> +5
Blacks -> 8
Presence:
Clarity -> 100
Vibrance -> +50
Saturation -> +20
Tone Curve:
Point Curve: Strong Contrast
HSL:
Red -> +60
Orange -> +5
Noise Reduction:
Luminance -> 75
Color -> 50
Sharpening:
Amount -> 90
Detail -> 65
Masking -> 20
Crop (retained original 4x6 aspect ratio; cropped to isolate subject -- I'm not sure I like the "bullseye," but I thought it worked out to be the most effective of all the crops I tried).
Cloned out minor/incidental lights from amplifiers near the outer edges of the frame.
A pleasant picture. Pity the focus is on the guitar neck, and not on the face. Or, for a soft focus picture, the neck is to sharp. Go figure. Lighting, colour, pose - very nice. I would probably have shifted the crop a bit, to give him more breathing space.
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