A friend of mine is performing in a live performance of Pink Floyd's The Wall, and I was able to shoot it last Wednesday. Unfortunately, the lights on the stage were very dim, so I shot mostly backstage, where there still wasn't as much light as I would have liked.

Almost everything is shot at f2 on Tri-X at 800. Hexar RF, 50mm lens.

The Wall

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), May 13, 2002

Answers

Jeff,

The lack of light is no problem for me...I think it makes you whole essay even more dramatic. Beautiful sequence.

-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), May 13, 2002.

Good work Jeff, I donīt know if this pictures have more to do with "The Wall" than with yourself, definetively with yourself, like it a lot.

What shutter speed were you using, some look fast, realy would like to see some of the stage performace, even at 1/2 second.

-- r watson (al1231234@hotmail.com), May 13, 2002.

Jeff, I admire what you were able to do with less than the optimum conditions!! - some really nice images, I particularly liked: The Set, The Band, Living Dead, and Interrupted.

Regards!, Art

-- Art Waldschmidt (afwaldschmidt@yahoo.com), May 13, 2002.

Nice stuff,

maybe try neopan 1600 next time, makes a stop difference but the shadows will contain somewhat less detail. But the grain is equal to that of tri-x or even better

-- ReinierV (rvlaam@xs4all.nl), May 14, 2002.

Jeff Works really well, excellent images and essay

have you tried Ilford 3200 Delta? or Fuji 1600?

B

http://www.briandavidstevens.com

-- brian (Briandavidstevens@talk21.com), May 14, 2002.

Very nice photography. It's nice to see someone striving to keep real photography alive.

-- Glenn Travis (leicaddict@hotmail.com), May 14, 2002.

Great pics, Jeff. I felt like been there.

-- Roger (roger@photo.net), May 14, 2002.

Jeff, Thanks for the presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed viewing the pictures and found a couple that really struck me. It provided me with a little more motivation to go out and shoot some more.

-- Rob Steinberg (rstein@erols.com), May 14, 2002.

Nice Jeff. My favorite photo was "Almost ready"... great lighting and expression. One question about the presentation... Am I the only one that can't view the photos in their entirety? I have scroll bars on the bottom and right side to move the image up and down and left and right, but I can't see everything at once. Some of the compositions that you worked hard to put on film are hard to see, because scrolling the image block elements on the other side of the frame.

There is a lot of empty space on the web-page, and it would be nice if the photos could be seen all at once, instead of being crunched in the bottom, right corner.

If this is just my monitor, then never mind.

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), May 14, 2002.

it is the same in mine Al, and yes is a pity...

-- r watson (al1231234@hotmail.com), May 14, 2002.

I was unaware that the presentation would not show images fully on some screens. I built it with some software I thought I would check out, obviously it isn't the right stuff. I will try to find something that works better in the next few days and update this thread when that happens.

With regard to shutter speeds, I shot from two seconds to 1/125. I think I lost most of what was longer than 1/4, there are a few long exposures in there, though, in the 1/15 range.

I probably would have taken Delta 3200 had I known how low the lighting would be. At another show they did (Rocky Horror), the light was much better for shooting, although I wasn't shooting that one.

Thanks for the comments.

-- Jeff Spirer (jeff@spirer.com), May 14, 2002.

Why do you feel compelled to give each photo an asinine title?

-- pinhead (blieb@sheridanross.com), May 14, 2002.

GREAT STUFF, Jeff.

I NEVER seem to get that fine of grain out of Tri-X. Are you processing yourself?

-- Bob (bobflores@attbi.com), May 14, 2002.

Jeff,

The forward, back and up arrows go almost unnoticed. I thought something was wrong with the page and only one pic would load, but on reload I finally did see them and figure it out.

Try shooting b/w in a club where the light is mostly red...bleech!

-- Dave Doyle (ddoyle021@yahoo.com), May 14, 2002.