Letters

I took this photo of Paul dancing at the Boston show on August 7, 2010. Paul is amazing. He has so much energy live. He's a very good dancer. So agile in those platform boots. You'd think he was twenty-something. If I could only capture that feeling in a picture. These are the things I was thinking when I took this photograph. The inspiration for it. Paul looks the way I'd hoped he'd look. The vision I had of what it was I wanted to capture. The essence of Paul dancing. However, it just happened. Very quickly. I had the idea, I pointed my camera and shot it. I learned something from this I wanted to share. I used a basic $80.00 digital camera. I had all of the "auto" features on. Because I just pointed and shot, the camera did not have time to auto adjust the lighting. I would not have had time to let the lighting adjust to get the photo I wanted anyway. Still, there is a great lesson learned here. The tendency for most people would be to just get a quick picture of whatever it is they are photographing. If you do this at a KISS concert you will probably end up with a bunch of blurry pictures. Or, pictures with lighting like this one. Take your time. There's no hurry. It's okay. No one is going to get mad if you take your time. Your camera is like any other tool. It will work great if you give it time to do it's job. I'm not saying every picture you take will be perfect. You will still take some lemons. But, why not give yourself the best chance to get the best pictures you can get? A KISS concert is a special event. It deserves special treatment.