I had a chance to do some concert
photography of two very talented singer songwriters; Paola Tagliaferro and Juri
Camisasca recently down in Zoagli in Liguria.
Two quite different artists, Juri belongs to a
certain Italian singer songwriter style; profound poetic lyrics born out of a deep
personal culture. As well as his own songs he offered us a Gregorian chant in
Latin and perhaps uniquely for me, an interesting rendition of a Psalm.
Paola has her roots in the progressive rock
of the Seventies contaminated with later musical discoveries such as World Music
well mixed to make her music very actual and interesting.
It has been years since I have seriously tried to photograph a performance and I was surprised that my shooting style returned
to me instantly, as if I had never stopped shooting this genre.
With today’s digital cameras the task is
far easier than it was with the film cameras I used all those years ago. For
the first time I used Face Recognition, which without a glitch took care faultlessly
of keeping the subjects in focus; fantastic! The exposure metre tied to the
facial recognition gave me perfect exposure on nearly all the frames, no
guessing the right exposure any more as one had to do with film. Progress is
good sometimes.
Here are the pictures.
