Tod Dickow on tenor sax — Shot of the day from last month

We are going to see John Wor­ley play at the Hed­ley Club and Tod Dick­ow is sit­ting in. Then I remem­bered that I scored a few good shots of him last month at Gor­don Bier­sch play­ing with Fas­ma­nia. The band plays in the back alley in the evening with a black net stretched across as a ceil­ing. This usu­al­ly presents quite the chal­lenge using the 70–300 f4/5.6 lens, need­ing to crank the ISO to 3200 on my D80. All things con­sid­ered, this shot came out fair­ly good. I like that I caught the Gor­don Bier­sch logo behind him. A larg­er depth of field might have brought the sign into focus but, I need­ed a f5.6 just to get 1/60th of a sec­ond shut­ter speed. If they would only remain per­fect­ly still while play­ing!

Todd Dickow