David Cook (American Idol) Concert Photos

Diamond D

I went with my girlfriend to a show up in Radford, VA on Sunday. I'm not the American Idol type, but she loves him and she puts up with my weird concert going, so I went to one of hers. We were in the front row and I was allowed to bring my D80 with 50/1.8 and 11-16/2.8 in, so I got some pretty cool pics. And the show was pretty good too!

Full Gallery is here


Here are some of the 'different' shots I got, there's more standard ones in the gallery:

Joe Dukovac

I have to say that the first shot is very cool. I kind of get a sense of vertigo when looking at it, almost like it's moving. Very well done!

Joe

divamum

These are great! Agree about the first one (which is my fave) - very cool effect. Did you just pan, or...?

dogladyscrapper

Huge David Cook Fan
What great photos from the concert - the standards and the more artistic ones! Can you post some of them to DavidCookOfficial.com It is the RCA site and I know that they allow posting of concert photos...you will make thousands of fans very happy!

Great job and thanks for sharing!

Mary

PS Got any Chris Daughtry shots? Now there is a concert to see!

Diamond D

divamum wrote:

These are great! Agree about the first one (which is my fave) - very cool effect. Did you just pan, or...?

Thanks - I was trying to do this in-camera by twisting it with about a 1/10th exposure, but I just didn't like the results. So I added a radial spin blur to a normal shot in photoshop. It was tough finding a picture where the effect worked though, I went through about 4 or 5 others that I thought would be good, but they didn't pop at all after the effect. This one is actually a little soft and blown out to begin with, so maybe that's why it works...