July means live music Fridays at Old Trolley Barn Park, here in San Diego neighborhood University Heights. Despite feeling crappy all day, I walked over tonight for a look and some photos—oh, yeah, and surprise. Performer: Chickenbone Slim and the Biscuits. Perhaps you remember my sharing about the blues band back in November 2021, after finding them performing impromptu outside our auto mechanic’s shop, which is closed weekends.
The venue and crowd was way bigger this evening. Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra didn’t deliver the kind of shots I have come to expect. Highlights are blown out and color is way oversaturated for the dozen captures. Details are muddy, too, as you can see from the Featured Image. Vitals: f/4.9, ISO 200, 1/60 sec, 230mm (film equivalent); 7:38 p.m. PDT.
The companion comes from Leica Q2 Monochrom, because I grabbed the wrong camera. Black-and-white wasn’t my intention. That said, zooming in you can get better sense of the partial crowd watching and how amazing is the IQ (image quality). Vitals, aperture and shutter speed manually set: f/5.6, ISO 250, 1/250 sec, 28mm; 7:35 p.m.