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Great Dickens Christmas Fair (many pics)

Started Dec 24, 2012 | Discussions thread
micksh6
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Dark Garden

I understand that Dark Garden is a company that makes corsets. They had two booths at the fair with models displaying them. This was a photographer's paradise. Well, a paradise for a hobbyist photographer who doesn't have models or studio setup. Models were staying still, an ideal exercise to try making a perfect portrait composition. Very popular place, many people photographed them.

This is how it looked:


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These two below are blurred because I was in rush to capture the boy looking at the model. There was another photographer who occupied the best possible place to take this photo. A guy with large Canon DSLR, something like macro ring flash and another flash in hotshoe with large softbox. I was trying to quickly choose second best spot close to him without interfering and blurred the pictures. I hope he got better ones.



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And then, closer to the end of the event, there was that nice lady posing. A small group of young people (around 18-20 year old) were standing close to the booth singing songs, starring at her, making grimaces, trying to make her laugh or at least attract her attention. I'm sure the lady wanted to laugh, she looked at them, but she was holding well. I had 75mm lens mounted, I couldn't capture the group, didn't change to Pana 25mm deciding to capture lady's emotions:



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