James Jackson III, director of the Thames Valley Youth Symphony. He is also principal euphonium in the Coast Guard Band.
On the Playbill was Dvorak's Symphony #9.
Regarding the darkness of the processing of this image, I made this as a choice. The original RAW image is brighter (shot at ISO800 using a f2.8 setting required no heroics to get it sharp or at good exposure), but I selected to go dark using Silver Efex Pro 2 (added pretty heavy vignette so that the focus could be on the conductor. Maybe I went a bit too far....
feels like if his head was more in teh middle with more headroom it would work better as the focus of the shot, less of the lectern and more of the orchestra behind
i think you went too far only because you've selected one story out of all the possibles, every face has made an achievement and tells us something. of course if you have to sell the image to the conductor then this is perfect! ;)
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