The Listener

A little girl walked up to the guitarist during an impromptu concert and stood still with rapt attention throughout the concert.

Panasonic G1. B&W conversion on LR2.7 and Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

Jazz in B&W

One more picture from the recent jazz concert.

Frederik Köster of the Fredrick Köster Quartet plays a number, accompanied by the bassist.

I have made a square crop of the image, reminiscent of older B&W square format images.

The picture has been cropped and processed in LR and B&W conversion in Nik Silver Efex Pro.

Nikon D300 & Nikon 18-200mm VR. 

Jazz Concert - 4

The Fredrick Koster Quartet plays on Day 1 at the Congo Square & DI Jazz Fest 2012 at Dalhousie Institute.

Nikon D300
Nikon 85mm f1.8
ISO 800
1/250s at f2.4

In Conversation

Another picture from the Concert.

Ganesh and Kumaresh in concert at the "Arpan - National Brother's Concert" at the Calcutta School of Music.

Shot with the Nikon D300 and the Nikon 50mm f1.4 AFD. Converted to B&W via Nik Silver Efex Pro.

The Accompanist

The National Brother's Concert at the Calcutta School of Music.

The intense concentration of the accompanist on the tanpura is evident as he plays along Ritesh and Rajnish Mishra singing Hindustani classical music.

Shot on the Nikon D300 with the Nikon 18-70mm zoom at 70mm, 1600 ASA, f4.5 and 1/30s.

Arpan - National Brother's Concert

"Arpan - National Brother's Concert" - an evening of Indian Classical Music to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda - was held last Sunday at the Calcutta School of Music at Calcutta.

Pt. Vijay Kichlu of the Kichlu Brother's fame inaugurated the concert.

It was a wonderful evening of Hindustani classical music and everyone present enjoyed it thoroughly.

Shot with the Nikon D300 and the Nikon 18-70mm lens.

The Jazz Concert - Some new pictures

Some new pictures from last week's concert at Dalhousie Institute.

Cropped shot of Izaline Calister during the sound check before the concert. 

Shot with the Nikon D300 and the Nikon 85mm f1.8  @ f2 and 800 ASA. 

Monojit Datta of Los Amigos during the concert on Day 1 of the Congo Square and DI Jazz Fest 2011.

Shot with the D300 and the Nikon 50mm f1.4  @ f2 and 3200 ASA.

Jazz @ DI : Day 3

The day 3 of the Congo Square & DI Jazz Fest 2011 had the Karnataka College of Percussion with Ramamani and TAS Mani teamed up with BuJazzO (a 21 piece youth jazz orchestra from Germany) to present a mix of Carnatic music and jazz fusion.

Out of the compositions played, City Life (written by Louis Banks) was brilliant. The encore with chants of Govinda Jaye Jaye  with  sax and trumpets  made an intriguing sound-scape.

I'm afraid that the pictures are not up to the mark. I was down with a severe cold and had an extremely runny nose and a pre-concert double shot of brandy with warm water was of no help at all.

The shots were predominantly taken with the Nikon 85mm f1.8 on the Nikon D300 along with a few shots taken with the Nikon 18-70mm.

Jazz @ DI : Day 2

The second day of the Congo Square and the DI Jazz Fest 2011 turned out to be a wonderful evening. Old friends, good jazz (though Prasanna's music sounded more like heavy metal sometimes) and great food.

The plus point about concert photography is that one finds a first row seat and stays put there and that is exactly what I did.

I stuck to the trusted Nikon 85mm f1.8 with the Nikon D300. The light was not at all conducive to any sort of zooms except very fast zooms, which I don't have.

All pictures shot at 1600 ASA (very few at 400 ASA) and at f2 at shutter speeds  between 1/45s and 1/250s.

The show started with Izaline Calister and her Trio  with Latin Jazz & Caribbean music with Izaline Calister (Curacao/Netherlands) on Vocals, Yelman Aponte (Venezuela) on Bass, Enrique Firpi (Italy) on Drums and Marc Bischoff (Netherlands) on the Piano.

Her music - a mix of folk, jazz and Afro-Caribbean music - sung in a language called Papiementu was too good. She urged the audience to sing and dance along with her and soon the patrons were on their feet dancing and singing with her.

The next act was by the Prasanna and Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music Faculty in Concert with Prasanna (India) with Guitars/Vocals, Lara Bello (Spain) with Vocals and Derek Nievergelt (USA) on the Bass and Dafnis Prieto (Cuba) on the Drums.