Darling Harbour Jazz and Blues Festival 2007 - 5

Posted by Andrew Gould (Sydney, Australia) on 22 June 2008 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.

Here's the group Monsieur Camembert. If you want to know more about them and hear their music, visit their webpage:

http://members.tripod.com/~mcamembert/

(Links to sound clips are at the bottom of their "CD/SOUNDS" page.)

In yesterday's photo from this Sydney festival, I mentioned the difficulty of getting an uncluttered view and the mineral water bottles that seemed to be on every stage. In the case of this present photograph, the bottle was so prominent that I decided to clone it out.

A little game, then, for those who have the time and the inclination! Can you spot where the bottle was? To aid you in this, you could view the largest size image of this photo in my Darling Harbour gallery on my other site:

http://andrewgould.smugmug.com/gallery/4401202_Ewgxh/2/315422759_dZCxf#315422759_dZCxf

I'll just say, to get it out of the way, that the presence of the blue curtaining on the right was unavoidable due to the position I took this from. With hundreds of people around me, this was my best option.

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http://www.andrewgouldphotography.com/Galleries/Photojournal

Comments (10)

Mirko Herzner from Mühlheim am Main, Germany

These colors are really great. I can almost hear their music from your pic!

22 Jun 2008 11:31am

@Mirko Herzner: Thanks for visiting, Mirko. I really appreciate your comment.

Lorraine from Gatineau, Canada

Wow extraordinary photo Andrew, I love it, and the clutter lol btw there is a mineral water bottle at the bottom left ;) I like those touches though, they bring a photo to life...I love candids to be real ;)

22 Jun 2008 12:03pm

@Lorraine: Thank you, Lorraine. Glad you like it. There was another much more prominent water bottle that I cloned out.

sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

No lack of color here. Love the green suit against the blue background.

22 Jun 2008 12:47pm

dj.tigersprout from San Bruno, United States

g'day andrew, superb composition here mate! i am really feeling this one! great color and composition -- i can see the action, feel the music -- just as i would had i been in attendance! this is as good as it gets! bravo! :)

22 Jun 2008 1:21pm

Tracey from White Hall, United States

Love the colors and the clutter adds to the "JAZZ" feeling for the picture. Nice cloning job, as I can't find the H2O bottle!

22 Jun 2008 2:24pm

@Tracey: Hi Tracey. If you have time, come back and see my answer to Danthro, who guessed it pretty right. Thanks for playing along!

yiannis krikis from thessaloniki, Greece

nice image and colors

22 Jun 2008 3:10pm

Graham Russon from Cape Town, South Africa

I couldn't find the bottle, so great cloning job. I like the colours and action in this shot.

22 Jun 2008 8:05pm

@Graham Russon: Thanks for playing the game, Graham. Come back and see my answer to Danthro and his further reply on this, and have a look at the largest version of the photo on my Smugmug site, if you have time. You may detect that some cloning has been done on the left foot of the performer in the green suit. Thanks for all your support and encouragement.

danthro from Suburbia, United States

maybe it's just that i don't go to jazz concerts really, but i think that guy's green outfit is one funny costume ;)
anyway, nice shot! i have no idea where the bottle was, if i had to guess i'd say maybe on the ground in front of the guy in green? cool game though :)

23 Jun 2008 2:45am

@danthro: Thanks, Danthro. You win the prize for the bottle game! I wonder if you just guessed or if you looked at the larger sized file via the link. It was in front of his left foot (i.e., on the right). I had to reconstruct a large part of the shoe and the bottom edge of his trouser leg. If you look carefully (in the largest size available), you'll see that I didn't quite perfectly redo the curve of the blue cable as it goes under the front of his shoe.

(Maybe I should have left the bottle where it was for documentary correctness, but it really did dettract from the scene, in my opinion.)