Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I did a location shoot for a black smith last week. I had put together a small lighting kit for a portrait shoot and thought why not try this smaller kit for this interior installation (normally I'd take a lot more). It was quite a challenge to do with less. Not yet sure if it was a good idea. But it made me step out of my box and saved the client a bit of change. Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jan 7, 2009, at 6:35 PM, bob palmieri wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2009, at 5:52 PM, George wrote: > >> Sometimes practicing is just practicing. >> Keep the chops up; >> Just in case a gig comes up; >> and I can actually find the groove. > > Funny you should mention this. > > When I was doing a fair amount of session work as a guitar player I > was a total suckup, eager to deliver a quick serving of stock > sounds and cliche phrases. > > After those situations became less frequent I morphed into a kindof > "artiste" type who just played the parts the way I thought they > should be, and if a producer didn't like it, too bad. At that > point I was doing enough college teaching so that I could afford to > alienate clients in the name of feeling like I had some kindof > identity. > > Ironically, I did a session last month for a tune intended for > Barack's inaugural. It was such a huge production that I made a > conscious decision to just give them essentially perfect 1st takes > that sounded like what they would expect to hear in that particular > place in the track, which also meant much more "playing it safe" > than I'm used to these days. And y'know what? In this case the > regular drill was the right tool for the job. Here's a link to a > video of that session; I think the singing is completely off the hook: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mhMYr17iwk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information