That's an entertaining gallery, Larry, and I enjoyed scrolling through. The light, grain and vintage costumes combined to make me think I was looking at stills from a 1950's movie musical. Somehow they've got a Technicolor look to them.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
