Backstage Graffiti

Posted by Laurie (New Jersey, United States) on 17 February 2007 in Miscellaneous and Portfolio.

This is from an orchestra concert back in January. Before the concert while I was shooting the warm up I had noticed this interesting graffiti up on the wall high up by the catwalk where all the riggings and such were. I'm sorry if I don't know the proper stage terms for what that area is so please bear with me. I didn't have the opportunity to really get a good look until after the concert as the stage was being cleared of chairs and music stands. I decided it might just make for an interesting composition so I shot it and this is the result.

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Comments (10)

Ins@no from Porto, Portugal

Love this one.... it's these moments that makes us takes a personal insight, that nobodys understand. You were there for the Show... but at every corner there "other" shows.

Great One!

Cheers,

17 Feb 2007 11:47am

@Ins@no: Thanks.

Jerry from Tampa, United States

Great capture laurie - wonderful night shot - well done - I love all this guerrilla art!

17 Feb 2007 2:12pm

@Jerry: Thanks. I thought the location of the graffiti was interesting. I don't think it was recent either, I believe it to be older.

photowannabe from pacifica, United States

This is a super shot. It tells a whole story with the rigging and the spots on the wall. I like the way the spots highlight the graffiti and the rest is shadowy.

17 Feb 2007 6:35pm

@photowannabe: Thanks. I think the textures and shadows that were created by the lighting were what really caught my eye first.

Michael Zhang from New York City, United States

Excellent. Technically, this is beautiful at ISO1600 and very sharp at 1/60. The shot itself is a fine piece of street photography.

18 Feb 2007 4:31am

@Michael Zhang: Thanks...I was a little surprised at the sharpness too since the lens I was using was also quite large and heavy without Vibration Reduction as well as handheld. I think the shot was just "meant to be".

MontereyJohn from California, United States

Hi Laurie, I left you a note over at Blogger re your son.

As for aminus3, I agree, this is a better format, and as you know, i have been paralleling here http://montereyjohn.aminus3.com/ for some time.

18 Feb 2007 7:44am

@MontereyJohn: Thanks for the well wishes over at Capture This. I will share them with Rob, if he hasn't looked at them already.

Yes I did see that you were paralleling here.

I originally wanted it to be a different set of photos and largely it is, but after some of the issues I'd been having with Blogger, I decided to start being proactive and just move some past posts here to the archives. I like the archiving system better here as well, it offers a little more info without opening page after page.

The only drawback here is that Aminus isn't able to work with an outside server at this point so I cannot use my .com domain the way I would like. I could do a redirect but then it wouldn't show my .com in the url. I also have a lot more control of my template on Blogger. I can make a completely unique one that is suited for my needs. If I only knew code I could really go nuts and make it really interesting.

Azhar from Mumbai, India

Lovely light.... very cool.

18 Feb 2007 8:14pm

@Azhar: Thanks...glad you like it.

John from United States

My initial impression was Phantom of the Opera. Nice.

18 Feb 2007 10:29pm

@John: Thanks.

badala from Leiria, Portugal

It is scenery such as a movie. Very nice.

19 Feb 2007 8:40am

@badala: Thanks.

Craiger from Vacaville, California, United States

The backstage graffiti is well captured in nice light! Very well done!

20 Feb 2007 3:34pm

Tim from Bratislava, Slovakia

You're not good in capturing street photos mmh? Liar! Such a very nice shot! :)

24 Mar 2007 12:17am

@Tim: Ahh but Tim this is actually from backstage at an orchestra concert...lol. So technically not a"street photo".