If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and are looking for a fun photo opportunity, check out the Dickens Fair at the Cow Palace, weekends between now and Christmas.
Some notes however: The lighting is absolutely horrible, especially in Fezziwigs (where they have the social dancing). It's lit by yellow and reddish gelled spots, unevenly in both intensity and color. I shot available light and processing the photos was a pain. If I make it again this year, I'm going to use my flash with a CTO gel, so that the background isn't a totally different color balance than the foreground. I started out photographing at Fezziwigs with the 16-50, and on most of the floor, the lens was just too slow, and in Tav the camera pushed the ISO so hard that even the K-5 had issues. I was really wishing I had a K5-II, my K-5 what having a really rough time focusing on the dancers. At Dark Gardens, the obvious temptation is to photograph the ladies in corsets posing in the windows. I found it more fun to get photos of people looking at the window displays. Particularly the young kids. As with many street fair type events, it is a wonderful opportunity for street photography, but I spent most of my time dancing with pretty women, only venturing out to the rest of fair during set breaks. 17 photos from Sunday that sucked less than the rest: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157632169833923/ -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
