First new post here in, oh, fourteen years or so. Figured I should come back with something loud.
This is my HDR Jamboooooree, and the fun part is how it got made. No film crew, no edit bay, no band. Just me, a pile of ideas, and four tools doing the heavy lifting:
Claude Code was the shop foreman. It wrote the scripts, wrangled the files, and kept the whole pipeline glued together when I kept changing my mind.
Suno is the band. Every note you hear came out of it.
Blender did the 3D work, driven by scripts instead of me clicking around for weeks.
Midjourney supplied the artwork and the look.
If you have an HDR screen, watch it there and turn the brightness up. That is the whole point of the thing.
A few years ago any one of these pieces would have been a month of evenings. Now the hard part is deciding what you want to make. Wild times.
I had a an absolute blast at Orion Festival in AC yesterday. Mostly I wanted to just absorb all the great music but you know I couldn't resist taking a few pics along the way. For that, my little Sony NEX-5n is so so so so good!
It remains my favorite little cam for walkabouts and ESPECIALLY concerts.
You can't use it expecting to make ultra sharp images every time but with the right lighting and a little luck you can make some very nice concert pics. And security never bat an eye at it thinking it's a DSLR...
I was literally less than 8 rows deep in the middle of a surging crowd, people were moshing it up, crowd surfing and generally going insane. Then the lead singer of Cage The Elephant decided he was going to join in!
For Metallica tho I was a little too far back to get any real details, but the lasers and showmanship were amazing!
Crowd surfing is not all fun and games tho, here's the proof: The most brutal picture I've ever taken =)
Was glad to see that it didn't get cancelled, but let's put this one in the "Learning experience" column for the new organizers.... They need to coordinate with the auxiliary and get some ideas on how to make it a bit less chaotic next time!
Was proud to support TEDxMidAltantic as their Social Media guy and as a vol the day of the event. This is Reggie Watts rocking out on the keyboard, he is quite an interesting guy.
Pics from the day are up -here- and you can see the whole official Flickr stream -here-
