@TheSkillery crowd #co-working by the warmth of the fire on a sub-freezing day @CentreSource #nashville #polarvortex #winter#2014
Author - Paul Schatzkin
Live Performance Photography for Nashville
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Today I’m hanging a “virtual shingle” for one facet of my photography business. Find it on the web at
Ever since the Internet started tearing up the the music business in the waning days of the 20th century, we’ve been hearing that music is now about the live performance more than the recording. Musicians used to tour to sell records; Now they give away downloads to attract an audience for their tours, then sell CDs and merch at the shows.
With live performance becoming the focus of the business, it is essential for touring musicians to have high quality photographs that convey the essence of their shows and the experience they offer their current and future fans.
I’ve been an a avid photographer all my life, and in the past few years I’ve shot a lot of shows around Nashville. I’ve nailed down some techniques for “getting the shot” even in the most crowded and poorly lit of conditions.
Capturing the essence of live music is something I enjoy doing, I seem to be pretty good at it, and I want to do more of it.
So I’ve come up with the ‘Caught In The Act Pack’ — a very affordable package of my services as a club and concert photographer.
To learn more, kindly follow this link to TheJoyOfMakingMusic.com. to see a slide show of my best work over the past few years. Follow the links there for details on the deal.
Keep it in mind next time you go to a show.
Maybe I’ll see you there. I’ll be the guy with the cameras…
Really? Chicken-flavoured vegetarian ham??
It’s fine with me if vegetarians don’t want to eat meat.
But why do they insist on naming their food after it?
Why don’t they just call it “Processed Plants” or “Packaged Edible Flowers” ?
Photo source unknown; found it on the Facebook. And the guy whose page it showed up on, he doesn’t know where it came from either. That’s why I try to put a © watermark on all the stuff I post there, for whatever good it does.
It seems there’s a #fungusamongus #hiking #sunday #nashville
Still not warm enough to melt the ice on the Little Marrowbone River. #nashville #hiking #sunday
Actually, the creature on the right first caught my eye about 17 years ago. The creature on the left is more recent. #nashville #hiking #Sunday
Full house @3rdandLindsley for Long Players performing Neil Young’s “After the Goldrush”. #boomerfest #nashville
Another #winter #sunset in West Bumfuque #nashville
20 days into a chocolate & sugar fast, just walking past this section triggered a major #sugarjones
Check this out:
I can’t tell from the YouTube page what the software is, but it’s the most impressive portrait (and video?) retouching software I’ve seen yet.
Wait a second… maybe I’m the one being deceived here.
In mean, I can’t even tell for sure if this is software… maybe it’s just a music video for a band called “Boggie” and this is their song “Parfum.” Maybe the vocalist is singing to us (in a language I don’t recognize) about the evils of photo-retouching.
For once, Google wasn’t much help.
I know… I’ll go check The Onion…
If annybody else who knows the secret… post a comment, please.
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Update 140126: I know the answer now. Popular Photo has disclosed that the video is, indeed, a music video for a Hungarian pop singer named Boggie. So me – and the friend who sent me the link in the first place, among the the fools.
You would think that if such software actually exists, I of all people would know about it by now.