On Dec 5, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > That's an entertaining gallery, Larry, and I enjoyed scrolling > through.
Thanks. > 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. I wonder if that has something to do with the lights being gelled with yellow and magenta, throwing the color balance just slightly off. > > > 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. -- 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.
