Andy McKee Live

Its been a while since I've posted an update on the GRD II, but I had the opportunity to see Andy McKee live last night (excellent guitar player from Kansas) and so took the GRD II along for some grab shots.

The venue was small and I was standing about 3m from the front. I wish I had the 40mm adaptor as the 28mm can be a little too wide.

Anyhow here's some stylised images from the event.








All images shot at ISO400 using spot metering, -0.7EV and snap mode focus. Shutter varies between 1/50 to 1/150s. Processed in C1 4.1 and toned in CS3.

Hi John,

Glad to see more action with the GRD II. How close were you? The 28 mm lens does not seem gto have stopped you getting pretty good images. Is this a small crop?

Did you use the on board flash? Also how does this behave with flash ot does this ruin the more subtle experience and advantage of this special camera?

Hi Asher,

All shots were wide open at f/2.4 using ambient light (off the various spotlights) that constantly changed throughout the set.

Images are <60% crops, which is why a 40mm adaptor would have been useful. At ISO 400 and with this amount of cropping, the images tend to be very grainy. So one has two options, use the grain or smear the detail with aggressive NR.