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Some portraits with Planar 1.4/50 ZS (M42)
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:09 am    Post subject: Some portraits with Planar 1.4/50 ZS (M42) Reply with quote

Well, not all of them are portraits... but most are:

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Love those street affairs you display so well Orio. The costumes, faces - I can smell the woodsmoke and the coffee in the air



patrickh


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

#1 is a painting, who place those woman in this perfect arrangement
great atmosphere in this series


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

#1 it is a painting. Scene, costume, composition, PP, everything indicates that. I guess that that was your intention too when you worked on it, to recreate that medieval court atmosphere.
It worths keeping it even if it shows slight traces of nisen bokeh due to the low shutter combined with their movement.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Especially like the last two, for the smiles.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks, guys. I wish I could say that I arranged the scene, but I didn't. The women were gathered there in costumes for the Palio.
But, even if I did not pose them, I did grab the scene, intentionally! I mean that it immediately looked like a painting to me - and this is also the reason why I did not correct the white balance after.
The poses and expressions are almost perfect - the only one that I'm not happy with is the rightmost woman, she looks too daily. The rest of them, sincerely, I don't know if I could pose them better if I wanted! That was such a lucky strike.
Of course, with street photography, luck is indispensable and it can be there or not, but, the photographer must search for it in the first place. A few lucky shots may happen to you even if you don't look for them, but most of the times, meeting luck is the result of long hours of walking and of following your instinct for where there could be the best occasions.

I have to say that the image reminds me a lot of the movies of a portuguese film director, Manoel De Oliveira. He likes to make those movies full of quotations of famous paintings. Curiously, when I saw those women against the wall, the films of Oliveira came to mind first.

@ Bill : those smiles are wonderful, aren't they? So shining and sincere. The people in San Secondo are very friendly with the tourist, it's three years that I go there and I have yet to find one person that denied me a photograph, or that did not present me with a beautiful smile. And now that they start to know me as a regular photographer that goes there for the photo contest, they are even more friendly, and they want to help me in every way.

All the people in the Palio, all those that you see in my photos, are volounteers, they do that for free for their community, and actually they spend a lot of their own money for that. Except for the quintana (the palio horse contest), all the shows in the town in the three days are completely free. And all the tables along the roads offer you tastes of wine and of food.


PostPosted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great effect with the #1, Orio.
I like all them, very nice sequence, the sharper B&W are great also. If I had to choose one I would go for the one of the musics.
Thanks for sharing!.

Regards.
Jes.