This year, I managed to take in the final day of the Brecon Jazz Festival, and my new RX100 went along with me.
Firstly, in case you don't know, Brecon Jazz isn't a 'real' festival, where you sit in a field and listen to bands that you've never heard of, performing on a stage half a mile away. No, Brecon is much more civilised that that. Its basically three days during which a whole bunch of gigs happen in a few venues dotted around the town and you buy tickets to the ones you want to see.
There is other stuff going on in the pubs - which is mostly rock and blues, but who's counting - and a few open air events, but the real action is at the Memorial Hall or the Theatre or the other indoor venues.
Anyway, I made it to a couple of shows, one of which was Phronesis, the final gig of the weekend. I made a few images with the RX100, of which this is one. It was taken at the long end of the zoom, ISO500, 1/60, f/2.8, manually focused at infinity so that he autofocus light didn't flash.
Its acceptable, but only just. The composition is not good, but I was sitting where I was sitting. I also saw Sons of Kemet, but I sat way too far from the stage to make any good images in that case. I guess that I have a lot to learn about photographing live jazz.
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