Art Fair, Zoo, Market, Jazz & Blues on Euclid
This week largely felt like a bust for shooting, maybe starting with the Greek Festival last weekend. But that happens. Quite a bit, actually. When you work in a studio, or work (paid) at a wedding or an event or some such thing, you have access to get to where you need to be. For me, I go out and see what I get. I do my best to frame things up, to compose an image, but in large measure you are at the whim of the world. What’s the light doing? What’s the weather? Who are the people and are they amenable to be photographed? It’s not the case that they always are, which I respect.
But between yesterday and today I put together a decent enough set of images to share. The settings were: the St. Louis Art Fair (held in downtown Clayton) between last night and this morning, but before returning to the fair this morning I got a few shots at the Tower Grove Farmer’s market, then after Art Fair part two I spent some time at the zoo, and then finally a jazz and blues fair at the intersection of Euclid and Lindell.
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I stalked this trio for awhile as they tended to walk single file and all shaded their eyes and just thought it made for an interesting capture.
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This isn't my normal editing style. I like big, beefy colors, but this is what's in vogue and I do like it. I think it's the sort of thing that alludes to film photography. I may end up incorporating more of it over time. Also just to note it, I know this isn't a good shot and so it's also a poor example of this particular style--just want to throw it in.
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If you know photography, you can tell that a bunch of my 50mm shots are cropped somewhere between a touch and aggressively (50mm is maybe what the eye sees, but with around a 1.5X zoom). This one isn't cropped. There's a quiet little alcove by the large Riverside Crossing lake at the STL zoo that the pelicans seems to enjoy and my guess is get fed from. Nothing but a short plastic fence between you and them. This is the full frame of the shot, no cropping, just a few feet from me.
50mm, f/4.5
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This and the rest are from the Jazz and Blues fest at Euclid and Laclede. It was small-ish but very well done
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50mm, f/8
