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Re: Canon Spring 2016
Missed me yet?
Pardon my absence - I was horribly backlogged at work, and a surprising side job (which resulted in the need to sort / process a total of 1500+ photos) has appeared. I did get paid handsomely for that, though.
I\'ve been sorting and uploading some odds and sods from the last week (most of which was taken up with shooting various events clustered around the city\'s birthday). Here\'s a random bunch of these; I\'ll add more as I finish organizing and uploading them.
Jetpacking dude during the watersports festival held on the shore of the Gulf. I wasn\'t specifically shooting the event - another guy from our site was doing this - but long after he was done, my wife decided that it\'d be a good idea for her to see this for herself. We went there - and weren\'t disappointed. Later, I mixed in some of these photos with the other guy\'s, because he did not witness these stunts. In the end, it was a case of everyone being content. The backdrop is the infamous Krestovsky island stadium which has become a local running gag due to enormously stretched delivery dates (and budgets). I\'ve seen meme pics with St. Pete\'s (presumed) appearance in 2050 - all futuristic and shiny, but with this ramshackle construction site in place as it was in 2010... and 2012... and 2014... This time however, they are promising to deliver it by the time the World Cup hits this town. One can only hope.
I have burned through memory card space like there\'s no tomorrow, but caught quite a few decent moments. The guy did fall a couple of times, but it was otherwise a stunning show to watch.
Gear used is obviously the 1D Mark IV (the 5D Mark II show in the previous bunch of shots only really lasted me one morning - and it was exactly as long as I had needed it) and the 70-200. Sometimes I\'m thinking of selling the 70-200 and getting by with only the Tamron 70-300. Clearly, this wasn\'t one such day.
On the city\'s birthday, May 27th, I was staying in the office until very late, but caught a spectacular instance of dusk in the city when I was leaving. For some reason, I have taken to shooting handheld long(ish) exposures of various stuff lately, and couldn\'t miss the chance. The flags aren\'t there usually; they\'re just a holiday decoration. Today, for example, they already weren\'t there.
Here, I tried to do a slightly different things - to emphasize the non-moving things; the obelisk and the sky above. I know that symmetrical compositions - and especially those with a centered subject - are considered a violation of the visual art rules, but... I happen to like them for some reason.
(More to come shortly)
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May 31, 2016 at 03:45 PM
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