This week was the annual Christmas musical production at the church I attend, Bethesda Bible Church in Ypsilanti, MI. I played guitar and ran loops for our band (using the church music rig I posted about in week 24), and had a great time of it. There’s always downtime for the band during rehearsal, of course, so I took advantage of this time to shoot some behind-the-scenes photos.
On Tuesday evening, I only had my Casio Exilim point-and-shoot with me. It’s a decent enough camera (and the high-speed video mode is amazing) but it’s not great in low light. I figured I would make the most of it, and set the camera to its highest ISO value and black-and-white mode to get a grainy black-and-white film look. I was really pleased with how the photos turned out!
I particularly liked how this photo of Ron, our keyboard player, turned out – the spotlight was shining right into him, providing a great rim light all around him.
For Thursday’s dress rehearsal, I brought my main camera with an assortment of lenses and shot more typical documentary-style stuff in full color and good resolution. It was a nice counterpoint to the grainy b&w of the first shoot.
