Doing it all simultaneously When I was a teenager, maybe relaxing and reading a book on a weekend morning, my dad would often say, “While you’re resting, go mow the lawn.” The phrase “While you’re resting …” was big with him. He was well aware that I couldn’t simultaneously rest and mow the lawn or […]
When I did the shoot I wrote about in my last post, I had access to the Jacobson sound blimp, and had heard of, but hadn’t seen, the Aquatech sound blimp. After that shoot came the PhotoPlus Expo, at which I checked out the Aquatech. It looked to me like a vast improvement, so when […]
I’ve photographed a lot of performances and performers over the years, ranging from musicians from folk to rock to classical; theater including experimental, off, off-off and even a radio play; and an issue that keeps coming up is camera noise. Camera noise isn’t much of a problem at a rock concert, but for a chamber […]
I like music. OK, I really like music. It’s embedded in me somehow. I usually wake up with a tune in my head, a fact to which my wife will attest. And I like to photograph musicians, in the studio and in performance. So with a couple of days off recently, I went to Summerfest, […]
