This past week I went to NYC to see singer Jackie Evancho as a special guest performer at Feinstein's 54/Below, singing with Michael Feinstein himself. It was a terrific show! One nice thing about that supper club/cabaret setting is that people can shoot video or still photos and there are no restrictions on size and type of gear used, so a golden opportunity to try and get some nice shots. I took my RX10 M4 with me because, as a "bridge" camera, it has many features of a DSLR but has a fixed lens with a range of 24mm-600mm (35mm equiv), so it offers a lot of flexibility in compositions and shooting. The ever-changing colorful stage lighting was a challenge, of course, and so I set the camera to Auto ISO and of course turned off all sounds so that there wouldn't be any shutter clicking or focus beeping to disturb others. Shot in Aperture priority with spot metering, but even so at times did have to do some cropping and use the clone tool and the erase tool in post-processing We were seated off to one side at the Bar Rail, which is elevated above the main dining room where most of the audience sits, so that was advantageous, too. Putting the camera in Continuous High with its multiple frames-per-second helped me capture subtle changes of expression and movements. I'm still wading through an awful lot of images now, though! LOL!
Jackie Evancho and Michael Feinstein
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Walking to the Sky by Lance Randall, on Flickr
DB6975E2-7C14-441D-A24C-E36916B02006 by Kevin Nealon, on Flickr
