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    Slow night at the carnival

    Went to one of the small traveling carnivals mainly to see how auto white balance handled the various types of lighting. It was a very slow night, only two or three people wandering around the show. C&C please.

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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    I like these! The colors are great!

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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    A slow night indeed Dean. I like the fourth, that guy's face says it all.

    Dave

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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    Very nice colours and all nicely exposed...I like #2 -- like a typical Texan. Did you ask him to pose like that?

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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    Very colorful captures and characters.

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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    A seriously slow night, but you can see the anticipation or is it boredom

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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    Thanks all, I appreciate the comments. As an aside, the auto white balance seemed to work out all of the incandescent, colored incandescent, fluorescent, and halogen mixture. BTW the third photo was shot the next night, still very slow, when I took "Stretch" a couple of prints.

    Izzie, none are posed. In the second shot, "Stretch"--almost seven feet tall--was sitting as shown and said this is was a "bored carny looks like." And not a Texan, from Iowa or Arkansas.

    Grahame, the look on his face is definitely boredom.

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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    Nice camera work and I think they are exposed nicely.

    My favorites are #2 and #4. I don't why but I've always been kind of leery of carnivals and most of the carnies. Between the melancholy look of the fella in #2 and the somewhat seemingly futile expression of the fella in #4 create a feeling of sadness in me. I don't know if that feeling stems from what your photography portrays or from personal experience but I like how you captured some emotion in these two frames. You went beyond a perfectly exposed photo to something more. Nice job!
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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    What a wonderful set of images and especially interesting because the context being conveyed is very different from what we typically see in images of carnivals!

    In the last one, you used the perfect depth of field by keeping the baseballs and the man's hand a little out of focus. Even understanding that, I'm still amazed that my eye is immediately and successfully drawn to the subject's eye, even though it comprises perhaps no more than 2% of the entire image.

    In that last one, consider cropping on the left just a tiny bit so the baseball closest to the edge of the frame extends beyond the frame. It's unsettling to me that the ball and edge of the frame are nearly exactly tangential.
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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    Nice shots Dean, love the colours.

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    Re: Slow night at the carnival

    David, Mike and Matt, thanks for the comments.

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