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Taiwan acrobat, song and dance troupe performance

Postby gooseberry on Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:20 pm

As part of the Lunar New Year celebrations, watched a performance put on by a Taiwan acrobat, song and dance troupe. Managed to grab a few shots - all taken without flash - of course being chinese new year, the spotlights they used were very red :roll: tried to correct the wb a little.

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Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:49 pm

Some lovely shots, great colour and presence. #2 is my favourite, followed by #1 but they all great.

#4 Pity you didn't have a little more space above the top acrobat!
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Postby Alex on Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:00 pm

Very nice photos. I like No.1 the most followed by No.2

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Postby gooseberry on Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:38 pm

Alpha_7 wrote:Some lovely shots, great colour and presence. #2 is my favourite, followed by #1 but they all great.

#4 Pity you didn't have a little more space above the top acrobat!


Thanks Craig,

For #4, yeah, I was using the 70-200 as I was nearer the back, but at 70mm, only just had enough room to fit them all in.
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Postby gooseberry on Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:39 pm

Alex wrote:Very nice photos. I like No.1 the most followed by No.2

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Thanks Alex,

Yeah, #1 and #2 are my favourites as well.
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Postby marcotrov on Tue Jan 31, 2006 10:20 pm

Beautifully captured gooseberry. Vivid colour and careful focussing. I particularly like #1 that would have been enhanced even further with the includsion of the male artisits hand in the frame to complete a great composition.
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Postby gooseberry on Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:41 pm

marcotrov wrote:Beautifully captured gooseberry. Vivid colour and careful focussing. I particularly like #1 that would have been enhanced even further with the includsion of the male artisits hand in the frame to complete a great composition.
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Thanks marco,

yeah, would have liked to have not cut off the hand, need to work on being quicker and anticipating more, quite a challenge photographing dancers.
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Postby gooseberry on Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:52 pm

A few more shots to share

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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:58 pm

Gooseberry,

This are great and IMO even stronger then the last set!
Great colour, and a sense of the dramatic in all these shots!
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Postby stubbsy on Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:34 pm

Gooseberry

A brilliant set of images that capture the colour and theatre of the event exceptionally well. Shows the wonders of the lens too.
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Postby wendellt on Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:54 pm

Amazing work, the last one is so dynamic and beautiful. Your work is also very very sharp and clean cut, what lenses are you using?
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Postby Alpha_7 on Fri Feb 03, 2006 4:55 pm

wendellt wrote:Amazing work, the last one is so dynamic and beautiful. Your work is also very very sharp and clean cut, what lenses are you using?


70-200 is the answer to the your question, inspiring stuff isn't it!
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Postby mudder on Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:44 pm

The color and definition/clarity in these shots is great, particularly in the second set... The balance and flexibility of the performers is amazing... Looks like you've done a good job on the WB too when you consider the lighting you would have had to contend with...

What sort of ISO were you using (couldn't get EXIF)?
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Postby gooseberry on Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:25 am

Alpha_7 wrote:Gooseberry,

This are great and IMO even stronger then the last set!
Great colour, and a sense of the dramatic in all these shots!


Thanks Craig. Yeah, the second set does portray some more movement.
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Postby gooseberry on Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:26 am

stubbsy wrote:Gooseberry

A brilliant set of images that capture the colour and theatre of the event exceptionally well. Shows the wonders of the lens too.


Thanks for the comments Peter, yeah the lens is a beauty.
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Postby gooseberry on Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:27 am

wendellt wrote:Amazing work, the last one is so dynamic and beautiful. Your work is also very very sharp and clean cut, what lenses are you using?


Thanks wendellt. Yeah, I quite like the last one as well. As Craig mentioned I'm using the 70-200 VR.
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Postby gooseberry on Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:34 am

mudder wrote:The color and definition/clarity in these shots is great, particularly in the second set... The balance and flexibility of the performers is amazing... Looks like you've done a good job on the WB too when you consider the lighting you would have had to contend with...

What sort of ISO were you using (couldn't get EXIF)?


Thanks Andrew, yeah the WB was tricky - they had red, yellow and purple spotlights :shock:


For those interested in the settings..

normal tone, normal saturation, colour mode I, no in camera sharpening, ISO 400, auto WB. All that was done in post process was to fine tune the WB a bit, and do a slight USM and resize.
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