Stills

As John E has already said, a good portrait and plenty of context from the lighting. However, I don't find it particularly engaging and I'm struggling to say why. The focus seems to be too far forward for perfection and the white patch top right jars with the rest of the colouring. These are quibbles, and not the cause of my lack of engagement.
 

There's a lot to like here particularly the dramatic lighting, but I find myself wishing for a looser crop or perhaps a vertical.
 

The surreal blue puts him on stage but I am wondering where all the air is going. I feel a desire to see more of the trumpet and perhaps Matt's suggestion would meet my desire.

I was recently asked on a Friday if I could supply a photographer for a musical event in Bournemouth on the Saturday. I said I knew just the chap, they'd just need to fly him in from Germany.
 

The surreal blue on the trumpet is too distracting from a picture which oozes life. He sure looks like he hit the note and it took some effort in reaching it. Great detail in the skin.
 

This image shows well just how much hard work performing with brass is. Personally I am happier with the blue light than the white so perhaps a crop on the right might help; having said that I don't find either too much of a distraction. An honest photograph of the lip trembling art of the trumpet player.
 

thanks all. good to get some differently feedback.

am really glad I had the opportunity to shoot all four days of the festival without any restrictions by a 'stage fence'. lots of good shots.
*ggg* this seems not my best (actually I have some better ;)
I like the close up and its sharpness especially because its not easy to get a such sharp one with that changing concert lightning and 200mm (35mm eq. 400mm) at 1/100 within a crowd of photographers and audience.
sure I have other images that shows more of the trumpet but I wanted to show the expression and concentration of the musician. just including a part of the trumpet to keep the context.
the blue light was the given ambient light. I was glad it wasn't too dominant here. in other concerts were worst lightning (for photographers) mainly red or/and blue. such lightning ruined more than only a few shots.
but often they can rescued just by converting into b/w.

@Rex: LOL seems they didn't wanted to fly me to Bournemouth. haven't heard from them ;)
 

Given the shutter speed, the result is very impressive for 400mm (200) - beautiful detail and nice control of exposure. It is a measure of how good it is that one doesn't need to convert to b/w; something that difficult lighting or colour necessitate. Personally, I think that there is enough of the trumpet to tell the story.
 

u're right John. the color quality here is worth to keep it in color. BTW have I mentioned its a not denoised ISO800 shot :)
 

As I've often said, when there is sufficient lighting on the subject, but still not enough for a lower ISO, then 800 works fine. It's when the subject matter is in shadow that one gets (generally) ugly noise. For others, I'm talking about the Olympus E-1.