{"id":11317,"date":"2013-06-12T14:02:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hipstography.com\/?p=11317"},"modified":"2013-06-12T14:02:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:02:31","slug":"divas-unleashed-by-tom-choinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hipstography.com\/en\/hipstographers-2\/divas-unleashed-by-tom-choinski.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Divas Unleashed!!!&#8217; by Tom Choinski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<strong>Name:<\/strong> Tom Choinski<br \/>\n<strong>Hometown:<\/strong> Buffalo, New York<br \/>\n<strong>Resides:<\/strong> Boston, Massachusetts<br \/>\n<strong>Profession:<\/strong> Computer Programmer<br \/>\n<strong>Hobbies:<\/strong>\u00a0The Boston Gay Men's Chorus, Editor of Hipstamatic New England<br \/>\n<strong>Hipstographer since:<\/strong> 2009<br \/>\n<strong>Year of Birth:<\/strong> 1966<br \/>\n<strong>Favorite combo:<\/strong>\u00a0Various, according to the situation<br \/>\n<strong>Favorite Lens<\/strong>:\u00a0Various, according to the situation<br \/>\n<strong>Favorite Film:<\/strong>\u00a0Various, according to the situation<br \/>\n<strong>Favorite Flash:<\/strong>\u00a0Various, according to the situation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\"For 31 years, the Boston Gay Men's Chorus has produced a Concert for Gay Pride Weekend. The theme for this year's production: 'Divas Unleashed!!!'. It was a musical tribute to Liza, Barbara, Whitney, Donna, and more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Apart from singing, I also serve the Chorus as chief comedy writer. A year ago I was approached by the Music Director for production ideas. I wrote a two paragraph outline paying tribute to famous male divas. They loved it; however, they never went beyond the first two words of my proposal: Enter Liberace. It morphed into the show's centerpiece number, opening the second act. It climaxed with a duel between a grand piano and a marimba. The show closed with Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way', with 100 singers wearing fashion glasses and singing into hand-held mirrors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>My position on the creative team allows me to photograph our rehearsals a little more brazenly than the typical chorine. Shooting a live production has many challenges. No one is going to stop and pose. You can't get in the way. The lighting is a study in extremes: intense stage spotlights mixed with extreme darkness can drive an iPhone crazy. Focus and contrast were a constant struggle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Because of the chaotic conditions, I selected Oggl to shoot with. While navigation and photo management were less than ideal, the ability to shoot now and apply filters later - mostly to counter exposure and contrast - was a godsend.\"<\/em><br \/>\nTom Choinski<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[button color=\"blue\" link=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Hipstamatic-New-England\/215153518534085\"]Hipstamatic New England[\/button] [button color=\"blue\" link=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tomchoinski\"]Tom Choinski[\/button]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Tom Choinski Hometown: Buffalo, New York Resides: Boston, Massachusetts Profession: Computer Programmer Hobbies:\u00a0The Boston Gay Men&#8217;s Chorus, Editor of Hipstamatic New England Hipstographer since: 2009 Year of Birth: 1966 Favorite combo:\u00a0Various, according to the situation Favorite Lens:\u00a0Various, according to the situation Favorite Film:\u00a0Various, according to the situation Favorite Flash:\u00a0Various, according to the situation &#8220;For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hipstographers-2","category-portfolio-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Divas Unleashed!!!&#039; by Tom Choinski - hipstography, Oggl<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Divas Unleashed!!!&#039;. 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