On Saturday night, My Lovely Assistant and I attended a concert by Louis-Jean Cormier as part of the annual Saint-Lambert en Fête. Oops, I should mention this happened last Saturday. One of the downfalls of running this blog is that sometimes things get backed up a bit. As a result, these photographs only get to you a week after I took them because I like to let my posts breathe a little bit. Four updates in one day would have been a little bit of overkill, and even one every other day seems to be a bit much in my opinion. The other reality is that with the day job, I didn't have the time to edit all of my photographs in a timely manner to be able to produce 
any of the above scenarios. So, in my world of an ever expanding hard drive, I'm happy that it only took a week for these photographs to finally see the light of day. There are still some Summer of 2012 photographs that are waiting for the same opportunity. Getting back to the subject at hand, the final concert performed at Saint-Lambert en Fête this year was by Louis-Jean Cormier. He is a singer-songwriter originally from Sept-Îles and gained initial fame as part of the group Karkwa, though he has released a couple of solo albums over the last few years. He also had a special guest with him on stage for this show, his young son Édouard. The 
youngster almost overshadowed his father, waving around his maracas to the beat of the music. Sadly, the show might have been a tad bit late for the little guy. My favourite photograph of the night is of young Édouard yawning, but still not missing a beat with his instrument. The lighting was also very low for this show, so I decided to try out shooting some different style photographs, going for silhouettes of the band, or trying to key in on the lighting. Something new, that was interesting to play around with. The first photograph was taken at f/4.5 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 155mm. The second photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 3200 at 142mm and the third photograph was taken at f/4, 1/20sec, ISO 3200 at 120mm. Here are a few more photographs that I took during the show.
any of the above scenarios. So, in my world of an ever expanding hard drive, I'm happy that it only took a week for these photographs to finally see the light of day. There are still some Summer of 2012 photographs that are waiting for the same opportunity. Getting back to the subject at hand, the final concert performed at Saint-Lambert en Fête this year was by Louis-Jean Cormier. He is a singer-songwriter originally from Sept-Îles and gained initial fame as part of the group Karkwa, though he has released a couple of solo albums over the last few years. He also had a special guest with him on stage for this show, his young son Édouard. The 
youngster almost overshadowed his father, waving around his maracas to the beat of the music. Sadly, the show might have been a tad bit late for the little guy. My favourite photograph of the night is of young Édouard yawning, but still not missing a beat with his instrument. The lighting was also very low for this show, so I decided to try out shooting some different style photographs, going for silhouettes of the band, or trying to key in on the lighting. Something new, that was interesting to play around with. The first photograph was taken at f/4.5 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 155mm. The second photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 3200 at 142mm and the third photograph was taken at f/4, 1/20sec, ISO 3200 at 120mm. Here are a few more photographs that I took during the show.
f/2.8, 1/60sec, ISO 3200 at 88mm
f/2.8 1/100sec, ISO 3200 at 120mm
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm
f/16, 1/20sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm
f/2.8, 1/640sec, ISO 3200 at 142mm
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 140mm
f/2.8, 1/100sec, ISO 3200 at 165mm
f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 125mm
I promised a story about a 'riot' last time. Well, at these open air concerts, lots of people show up and set up deck chairs on the street to sit and watch the show. However, this time around, some older concert goers decided to show up and set up their chairs directly behind a group of younger fans who were standing. Moments before the show, the older fans began to ask the younger ones to move because they coudn't see. The youngsters didn't want to move, nor did they approve of the idea of sitting on the pavement. They were there to have fun and dance to the music. After a few unsuccessful attempts at verbal negotiations, and by negotiations I mean lots of yelling by the older fans, one of the women jumped from her seat and began moving around wildly, flailing her hands around and actually hitting the younger fans a few times. It's all okay, she said. She was dancing. She was having a good time. At moments things looked to be getting rather 
heated, which had My Lovely Assistant wondering where security was, but some people to the right of the scene ended up moving, allowing the people who wanted to sit to be able to do so without having their view obstructed. Later during the show, I decided to try and find those same fans in the crowd, and I did so, only to discover that the woman wasn't even looking at the concert, she was reading from a Kindle! Incredible. The final photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 165mm and the previous photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/60sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm. Craziness aside, I really enjoyed Louis-Jean Cormier's show. Good music, fun attitude and a youngster who stole the show.
heated, which had My Lovely Assistant wondering where security was, but some people to the right of the scene ended up moving, allowing the people who wanted to sit to be able to do so without having their view obstructed. Later during the show, I decided to try and find those same fans in the crowd, and I did so, only to discover that the woman wasn't even looking at the concert, she was reading from a Kindle! Incredible. The final photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 165mm and the previous photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/60sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm. Craziness aside, I really enjoyed Louis-Jean Cormier's show. Good music, fun attitude and a youngster who stole the show.
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