April edition of Jazz Journal features a shot of Judy Carmichael, the American stride pianist, that I took at the Concorde Club in Southampton. Stride piano is a particular style of playing which has its origins in New Orleans jazz, and Judy is one of its best exponents as well as a very fine singer who appears in this country fairly often. It is saying something that this shot was about a third of the frame of the original image taken in landscape format. For the technically minded, it was shot on a Nikon D300 and a Nikon 70-200mm lens at f2.8 and 1/125 second @ 1250 iso using just the stage lighting during her performance, hand held of course. Jazz photography pushes the boundaries of what equipment is capable of, but the Nikon gear I use has never let me down (now, where is that wood to touch?)
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