Kelsey Nord

[Tom Owen Meinen]

Here are my shots of local Omaha artist, Kelsey Nord. This will be my last shoot with my 20D as I've just upgraded to a 1D Mark III.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Here are my shots of local Omaha artist, Kelsey Nord. This will be my last shoot with my 20D as I've just upgraded to a 1D Mark III.

Tom,

Singers in front of microphones can be hard to photograph. Also one can get seduced into correcting completely the colors of the stage lights and lose the atmosphere. You have done well. She looks young, fresh and really enthusiastic and sincere. Why not give her a boost and link to her website and where one can listen to the music!!

Asher

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Tom

Nice shots, cute girl, nice voice but a bit unsure of her pitch from time to time (not only in big jumps).

Best regards,

Doug

 

[ron_hiner]

Nice shots!
My faves are the B&W... In my former career as a concert lighting designer I had two goals (sometimes conflicting).. first was to make the artists visible, and then to make the lighting itself look interesting.
As a former lighting desinger and a current photog... I like the B&W best because the colors can be distracting. B&W lets artist pop. I like that.
Nice work!

Ron

 

[Tom Owen Meinen]

Here are my shots of local Omaha artist, Kelsey Nord. This will be my last shoot with my 20D as I've just upgraded to a 1D Mark III.

Tom,

Singers in front of microphones can be hard to photograph. Also one can get seduced into correcting completely the colors of the stage lights and lose the atmosphere. You have done well. She looks young, fresh and really enthusiastic and sincere. Why not give her a boost and link to her website and where one can listen to the music!!

Asher

Great idea. Here are her pages:
http://www.myspace.com/kelseynord
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1012754725#!/KelseyNordMusic

And her CD:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kelseynord

And her official video:
Kelsey Nord - Let Go

She's done a large number of videos for Youtube, both originals and covers. Just search for her name there.

Nice shots!
My faves are the B&W... In my former career as a concert lighting designer I had two (sometimes conflicting goals).. first make the artists visible, and then make the lighting itself look interesting.
As a former lighting desinger and a current photog... I like the B&W best because the colors can be distracting. B&W lets artist pop. I like that.
Nice work!

Ron

I tend to like black and white a lot for that very reason. In many cases it's the only thing that can work. Some lighting techs make everything either in Christmas green or Devil red, making it impossible to color correct to anything of quality. At the Kelsey shoot (at the Waiting Room; Omaha, NE), I was lucky to have a helpful tech. Per her request and since I was there on assignment by her, he cranked it up, giving me plenty of light.

You can see both B&W and Color versions in these links:
http://tommeinenphotography.com/kelsey/new/
http://tommeinenphotography.com/kelsey/

 

[ron_hiner]

Tom.. one of my favorite tricks is to convert a photo to B&W in photoshop, then reduce the opacity of that layer. You get a hint of color, and that's it. Sometimes it works artisticaly, sometimes not. Worth a try... my point is only that it's not an all-or-nothing decision.
Ron

 

[Tom Owen Meinen]

Tom.. one of my favorite tricks is to convert a photo to B&W in photoshop, then reduce the opacity of that layer. You get a hint of color, and that's it. Sometimes it works artisticaly, sometimes not. Worth a try... my point is only that it's not an all-or-nothing decision.
Ron

That's a great idea. I'll likely try that. I do B&W conversions in many ways. Most frequently I use Photoshop (CS3)'s black and white conversion tool. I rarely do it from the RAW file. Sometimes I do it with the Photoshop plug-in Silver Efex Pro. It's a wonderful tool that mimics various black and white film types and development processes.

 

[ron_hiner]

Silver efex

.... Sometimes I do it with the Photoshop plug-in Silver Efex Pro. It's a wonderful tool that mimics various black and white film types and development processes.

In my humble opinion, that's the best tool there is. My B&Ws converted with Silver Efex always look great.

I bought the upgrade to version 2 a couple weeks ago, but haven't had a B&W project to do with it yet. I'm looking forward to it.

Another tool I use... and this one shocks me... my Nikon D3x has a monocrome settting. When I'm doing a shoot that I know will be ultimately B&W ouput, I'll set it to monohrome mode and shoot in Raw. When I do that, I can always recover the color, but the shocking thing is how good the monochrome is straight out of the camera.