Musical Repeat
I created this image in homage to my not being able to play my drums with my local city band now for two years. This is the drum music to "76 Trombones&qu...
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I created this image in homage to my not being able to play my drums with my local city band now for two years. This is the drum music to "76 Trombones"...
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This image was created from two photos I took at home, one of me playing my snare drum, and the music from a custom-made lamp shade made from actual pieces of music, this one being drum music from "Seventy-six Trombones."Time
Both of these images were taken during the day.Lighting
The snare drum image was taken with my Godox V860ii flash set at a power to highlight the sticks and the drum, but leave the player (me!) in the dark...I believe I used high-speed sync to achieve this end. The image of the music was taken in ambient light.Equipment
I took both images with my Canon 80D and 50mm f/1.8 lens. And as mentioned above, my Godox V860ii flash was used in the snare drum/drumsticks image, which was taken on a tripod. The music image was taken hand-held.Inspiration
I'm a member of my city's City Band, the only city in Michigan to have a requirement in its city charter that there be a city band! For the past two summers, we've had to cancel our summer concert series due to the pandemic, and it's been really frustrating not being able to play and perform music. So, I used my photographic skills to create this image that kind of brought me back into music, if only for a brief moment.Editing
Yes. This image was combined in LuminarAI. Each individual image was also processed in LuminarAI before creating the combined image.In my camera bag
I typically carry my Canon 80D with five lenses (Canon 50mm f/1.8, 10-18mm wide angle zoom, 18-55mm zoom, and 55-250mm zoom, and Tokina 100mm macro prime lens). I also have my Haida M10 pro filter holder with a 10-stop ND and 3-stop GND filter and circular polarizer. Of course, I always have my standard accessories like spare batteries, lens hoods, memory cards, etc., and I carry a Godox V860-II speedlight with MagMod Sphere & MagBeam flash modifiers with color gels and gobos.Feedback
My advice is always simple...soak up everything about where you are, and feel the story that starts to reveal itself about your subject and your surroundings. I'm always amazed that eventually a compelling story begins to emerge, and my job then becomes how best to capture that story. Sometimes that's easy to do, sometimes it's damn hard, and sometimes I'm not able to do it at all. It's those times that I just enjoy the story and the moment, and then later it drives me to get better at my craft so in the future I can perhaps succeed.
