Portly Peripatetic Percussionist by durleybeachbum

Photography • People • posted on May 29, 2016

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At the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Ron Goodwin Gala concert I thought I set my ISO to 3200, but it went onto auto and so I didn't really get the results I wanted. So this was a digifiddle with a couple of layers, just for fun. I was struck by the relationship of this gentleman to the big drum.

Comments (12)

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Faemike55

2:48PM | Sun, 29 May 2016

Great postwork. I rather like the smile he has - he seems to truly enjoy life.

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SunriseGirl

3:09PM | Sun, 29 May 2016

Positively phenomenal postwork. :)

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Cyve

4:42PM | Sun, 29 May 2016

Great manipulation and great result !!!

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blankfrancine

5:31PM | Sun, 29 May 2016

Almost looks like the drum is an extension of the man.Very cool work.

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wysiwig

7:44PM | Sun, 29 May 2016

My, he is a big boy. Nice save.

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awjay

2:45AM | Mon, 30 May 2016

big tum ,big drum

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Glendaw

4:14AM | Mon, 30 May 2016

Amazing digifiddle,colours and textures.

He looks like a happy chap.

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helanker

11:41AM | Mon, 30 May 2016

HA! That was my first thought too :-) Nice digifiddle to this interesting shot :)

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kgb224

12:03PM | Mon, 30 May 2016

Outstanding work Andrea. God bless.

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jendellas

1:46PM | Mon, 30 May 2016

Made me chuckle, he has a jolly face.

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auntietk

12:47AM | Thu, 02 June 2016

Love the postwork!

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anahata.c

11:26AM | Sun, 05 June 2016

I still have galleries to catch up on, but I gotta come back here and do a few more here and there. (I'll be back for a longer session when it's all over.) I love this shot. I love it. The guy is peripatetic, yes: If you have a large percussion section (late Romantic, 20th C), either you better have several percussionists, or you gotta have a person who's willing to make the rounds. (The major orchestras---ie, with huge budgets---will have a number of percussionists. The smaller budgeted ones get a lotta mileage out of their percussionists.) So this guy's gonna do the rounds, poor blighter. But 1) what a huuuuge bass drum! I don't remember them that big. And 2) he's no slouch either. I love that you caught his belly as an outer ring to that drum. Great shot! And he's all boxed in there, with a whole mess of stuff to play. And you got a wind player on the right-bottom---gives the percussionist context. (That's a bass wind, from the size of it.) And btw, when one zooms all the way, they see the full array of your postwork: His coat looks like been left out to mold, and colonies have grown all over it. Très organic. Finally, the faces on these two, in full zoom---well, a strange artist, Ivan Albright, comes to mind. Ok, I got you a link: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1452&bih=1259&q=ivan+albright&oq=ivan+albright&gs_l=img.3..0l10.1326.2967.0.3091.13.9.0.4.4.0.51.374.9.9.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.13.384.DCHPmn9cfu4. Zoom in on one or two of the painted faces, you'll see what I mean. Love what you did with this, and the raw capture/crop is terrific.