We took a slew of photos at Detroit's 2010 Concert of Colors last weekend, and you can check out the photos I posted earlier this week with a recap of the festival at Where I live: Detroit's 2010 Concert of Colors is a celebration of diversity and city pride.
I've usually been disappointed with concert photos I've taken at indoor venues in the past, but I had a difficult time narrowing down this year's Concert of Colors photos to the 18 images I posted here and in my recap article.
The reason for that? I finally broke down and bought the Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM lens Tim has been bugging me for quite some time to buy. He thought I'd be far happier with my concert photos and some of the architectural interiors I'm so fond of shooting with this lens, and he finally convinced me to make the investment in it.
The lens gave me a decent combination of speed at a relatively light weight that allowed me to capture more of the action onstage during the various acts. Spending the extra money to buy the IS (Image Stabilizer) version of this lens was also well worth it, allowing me to shoot many of these images at as low as 1/60th of a second at 1600 ISO. I shot nearly all of the photos on these two posts recapping the 2010 Concert of Colors with this lens.
It certainly performed well under fire as this weekend was the first time I'd used it, and I hope you enjoy the resulting photos.
Thanks to Debbie Dubrow of Delicious Baby for creating and coordinating Photo Friday to link travel photos and blog posts across the Web.
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musicians are always wonderful (and challenging) to photograph. thanks for sharing these photos -- that looks like a festival I'd like to attend.
Posted by: Kerry Dexter | July 23, 2010 at 05:57 AM
Maybe it's because the color is dialed way up, but these photos really do have a sense of being right in the room.
Posted by: Debbie Dubrow | July 23, 2010 at 02:29 PM
Kerry-You'd love this festival. There is a lot of variety, and there's always such a good vibe among the crowd.
Debbie-The festival actually took place in several different rooms, and between this set of photos--and the set I posted with a recap a couple of days ago--I've got photos from all of the different rooms :)
The differing lighting from room to room...and even from act to act presented quite a challenge for taking photos as none of these were taken with flash.
Posted by: Dominique King | July 23, 2010 at 03:43 PM
The photos came out wonderfully. I'm glad you did a follow-up article on the concert. I really liked the other one regarding it as well.
Posted by: gypsyscarlett | July 25, 2010 at 08:52 AM
Gypsy-Glad you enjoyed my Concert of Colors posts. It's such a great concert, so I especially enjoy writing about it.
Posted by: Dominique King | July 25, 2010 at 02:50 PM