If I may say so myself, the focus was spot on. What you see is mostly motion blur. The hands were moving in gesticulation. See the full picture, processed with ACR using auto-everything. Look where the piano keys are in focus and where the pianist is in focus. Like that color? Interestingly, switching between tungsten and AWB made no difference. -- Victor
Break was called probably a minute before the picture was shot. The hands on the left are those of the pianist. Most of the time I was watching these two, they were in conversation face to face like this while the pianist was accompanying the canned music with his non-beer-laden hand. The other person may have been a musician, but he wasn't part of the band. I really liked the way he was expressing what he was saying with his hands on opposite sides of the microphone. This is a fairly tight crop. The full frame includes both faces. I decided that compositionally, I liked the tight crop better, but I wanted to leave just a sliver of the piano included for context. The black and white treatment was mainly because the piano area is lit by some aweful yellow flood lights. What you see here is almost entirely green channel with noise added. -- Victor
Very curious shot Victor and well done. In the challenge thread you expressed some doubt as to whether this would be on topic. I'm pretty easy and find it not hard to imagine this being a scene many wouldn't capture of music directors arguing at the piano over how a piece should be played. Maybe it was?
~Brent
