A couple weeks ago (I know, I’m behind :), it’s just that I have a ton of work I need to do) Križanke were filled with fans of the legendary Indexi band. The concert was really fun and I really like what came out with the photos. Photographing though, was a pain in the behind. There were no fences between the crowd an the stage, but the crowd didn’t move to the front of the stage, and the front row was sitting down. That left us needing to kneel constantly and after the show, most of us walked like ye’old cowboys.

After all this time, I’m still impressed with the sharpness of my 70-200 2.8 lens.

So, after getting some sleep, going to work, and driving home for 1 hour due to the traffic jams around Ljubljana I finally started writing my “report” from yesterday’s concert. My Delo report is available here. By tomorrow I also hope to give another reference but I’ll see what happenes there.

I went to this concert with very low expectations. I admit, I’m not a fan of Severina. I know her from more than just her “home movie” but I’ve never liked listening to this type of music too much. This was topped with complications with acreditation getting lost in the mail (I recieved an empty envelope!!).

I decided early on that I will try and do as much as possible with my 50 mm f/1.8 lens. And I did. Obviously, I did use my 18-200 for a vfew closeups and a wide shot of the public from the balcony.

Anyway, Severina, along with her guests, performed for alkmost 2 hours and a half, and the show was amazing. Maybe I wasn’t as impressed with music as I was with the performance aspect of the concert. This includes the durations, lighting, coreography, guests, spots in between bunches of songs etc.

As for the pictures… I’m actually quite happy as I mentioned in my previous post. I hope that those of you reading my blog are happy with them as well, and as usual I would appriciate any critique.

What I did notice however, is that I like the portait orientation when shooting solo artists. Do you think this is good or bad?

I’m still excited about the events that took place during the concert (more about this tomorrow). I must admit that the concert surprised me in a positive way as far as perfomance goes but not so positively about organization (we had 30 seconds to take pics of Luka Nižetić and Klapa Nostalgija). But it’s a challange. Anyway, because I really, really, need some sleep right now, here’s a teaser of what I’ll be posting tomorrow.

I’m really satisfied with the pictures I’ve took, and I think it has something to do with me using my 50 mm F/1.8 most of the time… Well, I’ll wait until comments tomorrow and decide if the pictures are really any good. I think the above one is the only one I took with 18-200.

Have fun ;-). 

On thursday, I was at Jan Plestenjak’s concert in Križanke. The full report is here. He performed with the symphonic orchestra. I must admit I was pleasantly surprised over the quality of the music and the sound of the orchestra. Compared to some other bands, who played with the orchestra, it could actually be heard.