Fun at the Faire #27 - a joyous pair by goodoleboy
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Have a nip on us, ye olde blighter!
Captured 4/27/14, at the beautiful Renaissance Faire, held at the beautiful Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area, in semi beautiful Irwindale, California.
The very epitome of bawdy wenches.
With the bright contrasts inherent in this shot, I had to do a lot of digifiddling to balance it out for viewing.
A ZOOM would help exponentially.
Cheerybye.
Comments (8)
A very jolly pair of wenches!
Well done taming the wild wenches, Harry; they have lovely smiles, and you were working with not only a riot of colour but harsh sunlight/shadows too, not an easy trick at all. Kudos to you!
lovely ladies with excellent smiles to you !!! What a great success !
Superb shot, fantastic details and beautiful light. I like their lovely smile and the costumes.
Now here a happy pair, great smiles as well. Lovely shot mate. Bit over coloured, very hard to get good shots on bright days I know but still, super photo.. Rob
Gimme a break. If you think that's over colored, you should have seen it before I postworked it.
Costumes were elaborate and colorful back then.I never realized there were blue jeans back then.
I've mentioned more than once that on this particular day at the Faire, it was designated you could wear anything you wanted from any historical period, including modern times. So I also wore blue jeans that day.
Bawdy wenches indeed. Without having seen the original shot, I'd say you did an outstanding job of dealing with the bright contrasts & came out with a very colorful & appealing image...
As I understand it, only the super-costly flagship cameras can handle harsh light and contrasts masterfully; and even they creak from the burden. It's why photographers always say that early morning and late day are the best times for shooting, because full day poses so many problems with light...That said, I agree with the above that you did a fine job correcting the ravages of light and contrast. It's another joyous portrait, these two clearly smiling for you but not forced and not hammed-up---just joyous. You draw out good reactions in your subjects, Harry, I've not seen a forced or staged look yet. They make a great pair here, and you have more of your fine compositional choices, which I assume are part conscious choice and part intuition (ie, your eye just goes there): One woman has red behind her, the other has blue (it's to the side, but it's the predominant color behind her); they're both angled slightly 'in', but both looking right at you; the mug and the background woman (on the left) are balanced by the open space on the right. And, with your 2/3 bodies---you cropped at the thighs---you have a horizontal crop: If you showed full bodies, you'd probably use a vertical crop. All fine choices. You always bring-in the fascinating detail behind your portraits; and yet that detail doesn't dominate---which it could, given how varied it is. A joyous portrait, and I still can't believe how many of these you got in just 445 shots: That may sound like a lot of shots, but it's nothing given how many beautiful ones you gleaned from them. Like I said, you couldn't postwork those to be what they were: They had to be in the camera to begin with. Your postwork perfected them, certainly, and corrected light problems, etc; but the shots were from your eye to begin with. Love this portrait. Man this is a terrific series.