Jonny Pasternak Tribute Concert

Yes the contrast was extremely high, I was shooting almost directly into one of the main spotlights tracking Jimmy.

Conventional black & white film push-processed would not have coped on that ocassion, I'd have no detail in the skin tones. Believe me - I've been shootimg Rock concerts for over 30 years.

I could have made a much flatter print but would have lost all the atmosphere, and this print sits perfectly alongside the colour images made on a second camera at the same concert.

Ian

Oh, I believe you, man!

I was kind of lost as to what to look for, that's why I asked about the stage light. That makes more sense now.

I didn't mean to bash your shot by saying that the contrast is high... it is, but like you said, it fits it perfectly. I should have talked about the detail as well, since its the first thing I looked for (and for a back lit shot, that dark jacket has plenty of it too!).
And you are definately right about the skin tones. That's what reminded me of conventional pushes. Once, I shot a band recording in a studio, with tri-x rated 1600 and souped in HC-110 (If I remeber it right), and the skin tones were very similar. That time, I somehow nailed the skin tones, but everything else was very iffy. In fact, I had no shadow detail at all. I'll post a shot of that session, just to prove you right , and keep this dialogue going (if you don't mind).

I guess that my previous post came off as an A**holish/snobbyish "mine is better than yours" kind of thing... my bad, it wasn't meant to. I'm still working on how to make my posts say what I want to say, if you know what I mean...

By the way (without being too rude, I hope), this is a very good shot, man. I dig it.

Is it Jimmie Page!? He was my hero and if it is then you have captured his essence - cool and aloof. My experience with scanning and posting online is that the results rarely come close to the actual print. Depending on your monitor and the room lighting most images could look pushed, pulled or everything in between.

Art

I couldn't possibly comment as to the name of the Guitarist, but the drummers name was Bonham, Jason not his late father & the singer's name was Robert.

In truth it was a private ticket only event and no tickets went on public sale, Tight But Loose - the Zep fanzine - said they'd heard rumours about the concert and the special guest. A short set of Zepplin numbers took place ! This is the only shot ever to be made public, although Robert did have a set of prints from colour slides I took at the same time..