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I headed up to Medford last night for a Tuesday night metal show at Musichead. Gore Cadaver from Klamath Falls was on first. The guy doing guitars and vocals, Henry, rolled his eyes back into his head while keeping his eyes open as he sung. I have never seen that before, but it was very metal.
Today’s top photo is of Mike Wright from The Yearling, the second band to play on Friday night. I processed it from the original RAW file.
Below is the same file from the original JPG, quite a difference…
processed from JPG file
A couple weeks back I went to see 100 Watt Mind and Eric McFadden at the Historic Ashland Armory. I didn’t bring my camera that evening. The sound for that show was, once again, disappointing. The Eric McFadden Trio still put on a great show.
Fast forward to a few nights back and Umphrey’s McGee performed on the same stage. I don’t know if it was the fact that they brought a ton of their own equipment or if it was putting the mixing board on the floor, but the sound was fantastic–a first for the half dozen or so shows I’ve seen at the Ashland Armory.
Jake Cinninger of Umphrey's McGee
I was unfamiliar with Umphrey’s McGee, but that didn’t matter. They were fantastic. I especially enjoyed the cover of Pink Floyd’s “In the Flesh.” I’ll be seeing Roger Waters perform it again in less than two months.
Brendan Bayliss of Umphrey's McGee
Kris Myers of Umphrey's McGee
For more photos of Umphrey’s McGee from the same performance click here.
These past 10 days have probably been the longest consecutive non-volleyball days we have had in a year. Beach volleyball and lots of college volleyball camps (OSU, UofO, SOU) coming up soon…
I had never even heard of Umphrey’s McGee until a few days ago. The show they put on at the Ashland Armory last night was nothing short of amazing. I have a few more photos I’ll post soon.
from jpg file (about 30 seconds of processing)
I still use jpgs for most of my images even though I shoot in both RAW and jpeg. Whenever I try to process a RAW file, and the photo was taken in decent lighting, my jpg either looks better or it is indistinguishable from the RAW file which took many times longer to process. However, in low, poor, or weird lighting I still, sometimes, try to process the RAW file to see what I can come up with.
I don’t think there is much comparison in today’s photo. The jpg simply does not look better. I could have processed that jpg for hours and still not got it to look remotely as good as the RAW-processed result.
from RAW file (about 5 minutes of processing)
Last week, after a bit of rain, I headed outside to check out the bokeh (ボケ) on my newest lens. The tree branches were covered in rain drops and were running towards me rather than horizontally. I focused on a single drop in the middle (just below and left of center) at f/1.4 with the above result.
