Posts tagged Photography
Thirsty Thursday
02 years ago
JJ and I spent the day doing not much of anything. I did run out and check a couple of pawn shops for some photography gear but didn’t have any luck. We are both trying to recuperate from the weekend. We ended up meeting our good friend Dwayne at Buffalo Wild Wings and having a couple of beers and some great hot wings. Dwayne had just gotten back into town from New York. For future reference, don’t talk on a cell phone while driving in Brooklyn. Dwayne is $130 poorer due to a ticket he received while there on business.
We are leaving tomorrow for Jackson for the weekend. We are going to stay with Bo and Lea. Bo and I have some photography work to do and I need to pick his brain about some Photoshop techniques. I really want him to teach me ever thing he knows about layers. We are also going to get up early and go to the Christmas parade on Saturday. The Weather Channel says that we are going to have snow. It could make for a brisk morning. I also need to stop by Deville Camera on the way to their house. I need to pick up a new tripod since mine was left in Korea.
Since I have been posting a photo with every post, here is one of a random church we visited in Paris.
Suwon Festival Parade Characters
52 years ago
We finally made our way to the parade and it lasted a lot longer that I thought it would. The first part was more like a contemporary parade and then it concluded with a more cultural type of parade.
These pretty Korean girls were very popular with the crowd and probably the photographers as well
The rest of the photos are from the more cultural part of the parade. I took a bunch of photos and have already posted a few, but here are a few more.
This photographer was quite interested in getting a good shot of Derek and I. I would love to see what she came out with.
All in all it was a good day. I got to take a lot of photos and learned a lot.
Short Skirts, Horse Riders, and Foreign Students??
12 years ago
This is the third part of my photos from the Suwon Festival. We moved on to the parade and set up near an alley. There were a ton of colorful characters in the parade. This was actually my first parade to attend in Korea, besides the cultural part of the parade it was not too different from a parade back home.
I really missed a lot of shots because of a slow shutter speed. I really need to get out of AV mode. I think that I also bumped my focusing distance on the 70-200 and got a few too many out of focus shots. Here are few of the better ones.
These girls were fairly popular with the crowd. haha Reminded me of when a cheerleader at the high school ,where I taught a few years ago, would play in the band at halftime.
I really don’t know if these guys were students studying in Korea or not. I joked that they could have been enticed to come to a parade and were tricked into being part of the show.
I gotta learn to vary my aperture, so that I can get a different depth of field. I have the same shot on all 3 of these guys.
Suwon Festival 2009| Performance Near the Gate
42 years ago
Derek and I left the civil service exam and went to grab some lunch at a kimbap restaurant. After lunch we moved on to Holly’s coffee right in front of one of the gates. I really felt like I bugged the hell out of Derek, but he was a good sport and gave me some really good tips and recommendations for books on photography to read.
We noticed that they were beginning to have some type of performance in the middle of the street in front of the gate. We both started photographing it and I noticed that Derek had moved into the middle of street with a bunch of Korean photographers. I got up the nerve to join him and at one point was sitting on the ground with a bunch of other photographers having a blast. We stayed here until the police asked/told us to get out of the middle of the street. One of the many things that I learned with shooting with Derek was to be more brave. He was the one that first said we should shoot from the stage at the exam and he was the first to move into the street. I really need to stop worrying about what others think and just try to get in there and get the best shot. Saying all of that, there was one photographer that was pretty much set up behind the dancers. I have him in a ton of my shots. He had to know what he was doing. There was also a staff photographer that everyone had to shoot around. She had a press pass, so she had free reign.
I was going to clone the photographer that got into the background of a ton of my shots out, but decided to leave him there for posterity’s sake. We took a bunch of photos here and then moved back to the fortress to get ready for the parade.
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