Location Shoot with Jazz Guitarist Barry Greene

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This weekend I got the opportunity to shoot some back-stage portraits of celebrated jazz guitarist Barry Greene, who was playing a special engagement at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Florida last night with the Florida Orchestra (visit Barry’s site).

My assistant Brad Moore and I got there about an hour before their sound check, and we were able to shoot for about an hour backstage, out in the theater seating, and along the front of the stage (click on the photos for larger views—they look better larger). There are two very short video clips below; one during the shoot, with me out in the theater seats shooting Barry at the stage, and another of Barry riffing while I’m taking the shots. (Video clips by Brad Moore).

The shot below is my favorite shot from the day. That’s Barry’s son Mitch (a really great kid)  in the background, and he wasn’t actually in the shot the way I was composing it, but at one point I looked out from behind the camera and saw Mitch back there, and I just wanted to capture that backstage moment for Barry so I went much wider for that frame, and I really like how it came out (click on it for a larger view).

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GEAR: We used an incredibly simple set-up; just one Nikon SB-800 flash, on a lightstand, shooting through a shoot-thru umbrella (we actually had planned to use the Lastolite EZ Box but when we got there, we realized that we were missing a critical part, but Brad always brings back-up gear so we just quickly switched to the shoot thru umbrella). I shot with a Nikon D700, and I used two lenses: (1) For most of the day I used a Nikon 200mm f/2, and (2) for the wide stuff I used the 24-70mm f/2.8. All the shots shown here were taken at 200 ISO.

Anyway, we had a fun day, and here are some of the shots from the shoot (the production shots are by Brad “Boy Wonder” Moore).

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Here are the two video clips (shot by Brad Moore) below:

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