Renaissance Faire

This was in Hollister, California. As always, unique atmosphere, an escape from everyday's rush.

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Thank you for looking. C&C welcome, and here are some more, 90+
https://picasaweb.google.com/103194541321944497872/RenaissanceFaire2013NorthCalifornia?noredirect=1

I'm high on my E-PL5 as well. A wonderful little tool.

I went there for 3rd year in a row. People bring some serious gear to this event.

This one is new super expensive Canon 200-400mm lens with built-in tele-converter

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Ironically, at 200mm and F4 the perspective/DOF won't be much different from 75mm F1.8 lens that I used. And there is a little need in longer lens at this place. One always can come a bit closer, except maybe for jousting tournament. Otherwise 150-200mm FL is optimal. And my E-PL5 got more DR than his Canon.

Nikon 200mm F2.0 lens on D4. Too bad I haven't seen the guy's photos:

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This is my friend in 2011. Contax MF, Phase One digital back and Zeiss 350mm F4.0 lens, something like 220mm in FF equivalent:

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Below is his photo. I have to admit, it's hard to compete with these colors and rendition.

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Excellent images, one thing though slightly off topic, why do America have lots of fat policemen/woman, i see it a lot i always wonder if they have to run they would get out of breath, or perhaps they dont run.  

ASR45 wrote:

Excellent images, one thing though slightly off topic, why do America have lots of fat policemen/woman, i see it a lot i always wonder if they have to run they would get out of breath, or perhaps they dont run.

I don't know. Some Hollywood movies tell that they like donuts. But, I guess a big person is more considerable. Plus extra mass will help in case of withstanding crowd.

micksh6 wrote:

ASR45 wrote:

Excellent images, one thing though slightly off topic, why do America have lots of fat policemen/woman, i see it a lot i always wonder if they have to run they would get out of breath, or perhaps they dont run.

I don't know. Some Hollywood movies tell that they like donuts. But, I guess a big person is more considerable. Plus extra mass will help in case of withstanding crowd.

Lol, one way of looking at it i guess.  

GREAT images!

Some are just begging for captions:

2  Geez the humans on this planet sure look funny.

3  Beast (drawing sidearm?) and Beauty

4  These BBQ brickettes are HOT!

7  "Duck, lady, duck!"

8  What a dinky lil camera.  Size matters.  Introduce me to some of the dudes down thread.

9  Sorry Jane, I just got distracted by the beauty hanging off of that curtain... down there...

10  I know that you are looking down at me.... Just let me be coy for another spin, then you can jump down and join me on this curtain.

Wonderful stuff.  Looks like a great time was had by all, including the raft of photogs that must've been there!   

Tom

Thanks for sharing!

Did you try your photos 1/3 - 2/3 steps darker in PP? They're not overexposed, but a little bright to my eyes, especially first one

s_grins wrote:

Thanks for sharing!

Did you try your photos 1/3 - 2/3 steps darker in PP? They're not overexposed, but a little bright to my eyes, especially first one

Yes, I sometimes hear that my photos are too bright, but somehow darker photos dind't look right to me.
Probably the reason is that scene contrast was high, I raised shadows and reduced whites so that even darkest face areas are visible? Otherwise shadow parts would be almost black, which I dislike.

Here is histogram of original photo, face brightness tops at 90%, white clothes at 95%.

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And here I reduced exposure by 1/3 stop and darkened shadows and reduced contrast slightly. Do you think this one looks better?

#1, version 2

Thank you all, especially for captions!

micksh6 wrote:

s_grins wrote:

Thanks for sharing!

Did you try your photos 1/3 - 2/3 steps darker in PP? They're not overexposed, but a little bright to my eyes, especially first one

Yes, I sometimes hear that my photos are too bright, but somehow darker photos dind't look right to me.
Probably the reason is that scene contrast was high, I raised shadows and reduced whites so that even darkest face areas are visible? Otherwise shadow parts would be almost black, which I dislike.

Here is histogram of original photo, face brightness tops at 90%, white clothes at 95%.

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And here I reduced exposure by 1/3 stop and darkened shadows and reduced contrast slightly. Do you think this one looks better?

#1, version 2

Thank you all, especially for captions!

Yes, for my eyes version 2 looks perfect.

Thanks again for posting.