Friday 17 July 2009

Tales From A Northern City



Saturday 11th of July. Blueprint Studios, Manchester.

My good friend John Herring performed in concert, his new album, "Tales From A Northern City". Accompanied by his band of accomplished musicians, he played the twelve songs from the now released CD, to an enthusiastic audience of around two hundred.
The lighting made getting decent photos a challenge, especially for my medium format camera. I was glad to have brought a monopod which came in very handy.

I used Fujifilm 800 for most of the live shots and 400 for those of the sound-check (below). The lenses on my Contax 645 were the 80mm f2 Planar & 140mm f2.8 Sonnar