Gary Walter, QPSA
February 2025 - Blue Grass Jam
About the Image(s)
Title: Blue Grass Jam
Equipment Used: Canon EOS R6Mk2 EF24-105 f/4L IS USM at 42 mm
Camera Settings: Aperture Priority, ISO 2500, 1/160 sec, f/4, 0 EV, center weighted average metering
Lighting Conditions: 24 November 2024 1:49 PM, Ambient incadescent lighting inside the Floyd Country Store
Where and When: In the Floyd Country Store in Floyd, Virginia USA. This area is in the Appalachian Mountains of south western Virginia where blue grass music was born (before Nashville came along....). There is a blue grass jam every Sunday afternoon and a second one every Sunday evening. It is free and people from the community come to enjoy the music and dance. People just show up with their instruments and are free to join in the music making.
Post-Processing: In Lightroom: enabled lens profile, remove chromatic aberration, straightened & cropped, adjusted blacks, whites, shadows, highlights, increased exposure, then adjusted dehaze, clarity, adjusted contrast, vibrance & saturation to view the image as seen by the eye.
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8 comments posted
Somehow, I feel the crop being too tight towards the bottom. Is it possible to avoid cropping the guitar and the elbows of the people in the front? Posted: 02/17/2025 09:27:51
This is such an iconic place and very famous as it is on the Crooked Road tour through southwest Virginia and other nearby states in the Appalachian mountain region. This famous and trying to find a time when it is not crowded is nearly impossible. In any event, I wanted to show this piece of history. Posted: 02/20/2025 15:08:04
Posted: 02/22/2025 08:14:59