Yamaha C2
by JamesDo

Comment:
Nothing about this suggests live music to me.

Blues Under the Stars
by DrAchoo

Comment:
You did well to keep detail in the performer as well as the lamps. Tilted composition works well. Some basic editing desaturation has resulted in strange bright blue strips over your photo which spoil the effect. Would it have been better as it was?

Beautiful Noise
by Steveinnz

Comment:
Wow, not usually the best place for a plectrum (over fingerboard). Anyway, I like the selective desat but the onboard flash (work of the devil) has really spoilt the shot, look at the shadows under the fingers.

Band of the family
by rachelwebb

Comment:
Photo size too small. Flash has meant that out attention is pulled to audience rather than band, and makes it look like a snapshot.

Rockin on a front porch
by Jamie 5

Comment:
Doesn't really say live music to me. I'd prefer the focus on the face rather than on the headstock. Or on both.

Guitar player
by speedylix

Comment:
Doesn't quite look intentionally blurry. A little oversaturated for my taste, with too many unnatural purples.

Underground Music Scene
by muur88

Comment:
I can see dodging/burning around the subject (especially when I tilt my laptop screen) and guitar case. I heavily doubt this was basic editing. Nonetheless, I will vote as if it was legal.

Danny "Boy" Guneratne
by ergo

Comment:
I like the PP, nice candid. The look on the bagpipist's face on the far side makes this shot. Photo is slightly tilted, I'd have liked it straightened.

Mississippi All Stars
by gloda

Comment:
Nice PP treatment, shame about the two random strangers in the background, one with no eyes. Love the pose of the clarinetist.

Band name: Dog in lost and found
by harabanar

Comment:
Shame this is overexposed. It rarely works when the eyes are near the edge of the frame looking out of it, it leads the viewer's eye out of the shot and makes the left of the shot redundant. Microphones in the way of faces are also best avoided... how about a couple of steps to the left so the microphone is not obscuring his mouth?