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Some more photos.
December 22, 2006Here's a few Best of 2006 photos that really don't have anything to do with each other at all.
Just felt like being random I guess.
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
A member of Ballet Folklorico Azteca of Fort Worth performs during Mariachifest at the Kay Yeager Coliseum Saturday night.
This is a shot from the first annual Mariachifest in September. There wasn't much light in the Coliseum from the stage....but when the dancers came out in front of the stage, they hit them with a nice bright spotlight.
I remember getting down really low to the ground and shooting at a slow shutter speed to get the blurred effect in the dress. When you're shooting fast moving subjects at a slow speed (I was at 1/30th of a second) you have to hope that they stay still for juuuuuuust long enough to get their faces in focus.
Really, the entire photo make or break is out of your hands. All you can do at this point is hold still and hope you get one.
Seems like a lot of luck is involved in this doesn't it?
Jason Palmer/Times Record News
Jeff Anderson dons a green St. Patrick's Day hat underneath the blue and white striped tent as The Blue Ticks plays on stage Friday evening during the downtown festival.
There is nothing lucky about this shot from the St. Patricks Day celebration hosted by the Iron Horse Pub. This is pure vision.
I was trying to find a photo that could pretty much tell the story in one shot. It's St. Patty's Day....folks wear green....there was a concert in downtown under a tent.
I love just about every aspect of this photo. The guy was sitting in the front row and didn't mind me taking photos from behind. I wanted to find some way to show off the great stripes on the tent, but not lose the tell-tale St. Patty's Day hat.
The light from the stage was bright enough for the band, but I had to use a flash on the camera to light up the hat just right. It was a case where I had to bounce the light off the high tent ceiling to lose all the hard shadows that would have occured otherwise.
It was fun to come back and turn this shot in from the concert, not everybody "got" the shot, sometimes they just don't understand the art. But I loved it.
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