Live Music Inside Japanese Temple

tensai-riot

Got to shoot for some friends a while back and I thought I would share a coupel of he better shots. Ching Dul is the name of the group and the were performing inside a temple here in Kyoto. Happens a bit around town, but not at the place we were at, so I was quite happy to be able to not only see the show, but also take all the pictures I wanted. Fun stuff, and always a great show!







Thanks a bunch for checking out the photos

Cheers

adbsgicom

Very nice series. I like the first two very much. The angles seem just right; the lighting in the first is great, and the b/w is perfect for the second. The third is just not a great angle IMO. You can just bare see the stick (no idea what the proper term for a Taiko drumstick is), which makes the image lose a lot of its energy and context. It took a second look for me to know that the person was striking the drum, and not adjusting it.

Nice work!

tensai-riot

Cheers
Hey Andrew,

Thanks a bunch for checking out the photos and the nice comments. I am glad that you really liked the first two, and now that you mention it, I understand what you mean about the last one. I have been over here a while and for me it is easy to understand what is going on, but for someone who may not have seen much of this kind of music I can see that it might be a little unclear.

Thanks for that, make sure I keep that in mind for the future

Cheers!

Ozzwald

Was it dark in there? just curios what iso and camera?

ivar

Oooh, that looks interesting! Nice shots, do you have more for us to see?

tensai-riot

very dark
Ya, it was very dark in there, and I couldn't move around at all. I use a Nikon D200 for now (hope to buy a D300s soon). Not sure what the ISO was, but I tried to keep it as low as possible.

There are lots more in the gallery on my site, in music

Cheers!