On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > The company a friend works for put on a charity poker tournament (the > winners got to donate to their favorite charity) as basically a > shmoozefest for oracleworld. > > This was a very different style of photography than I've done. As long > as it was "good enough" content and expediency were far more important > than technical, or even artistic, perfection. > > I was hired nominally to get shots of the guests in front of the > backdrop. They didn't do a great job of herding the guests to me as > they came in and there was a hard time limit of when the instruction > of how to play, and then the actual tournament would start. > > The plan was that I'd take the shots from 6:00 to 6:30, process them, > and someone would run the files down to Walgreen's for 5x7 prints. I > was then encouraged to take photos during the tournament. I took care > to ask who were the people I should get the photos of (important > customers etc.) > > One of the customers missed out on the first round of "prom photos", > and asked if he could get a shot later. Rather than shooting with > Anita Cocktail (the drag queen impersonator in several of the shots) > we got a shot of him with Amy (the friend who organized the event). He > was hamming it up a bit for the camera putting his head on her > shoulder, so I told her to kiss him on the cheek. It turns out that > their company may get a contract from his, so that may have worked out > quite well. > > If your curious, the pictures are up. They aren't destined for any > galleries, but the customer was happy, and the check cashed. > > Twenty three shots in the set: > There are two ways of viewing them, the flickriver site shows them in > 600x800, but is a little slower to load: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622589959338/ > > The flickr site shows them as 100x100 crops > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622589959338/
I don't know why, but I really like these. There's a sort of "formal snapshot" look to the posed shots that I really like - they're almost surreal. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
