Things that go boom.
Apr. 26th, 2010 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyPhotos of the Free Artillerie Company doing our thing at the Woodland Scottish Games are up at http://www.flickr.com/photos/70104978@N00/sets/72157623933461460/
I'm trying to learn to be more ruthless as a photographer, however, the point was for our members to see themselves see themselves (yay!) doing what they do and we could conceivably cherry pick some of the better ones to go up on our woefully outdated website at some point. I discarded about eight to ten outright and then stayed up much later than I meant to last night scrolling through and trying to crop out visual clutter. It's such a little thing, but it can really make a difference. And we were in a visually cluttered environment. The Saturday demo I was facing our camp, which provided a nice background if I could work around the big blue trash can and roaming members of the general public, but it meant shooting into the sun. I shot from the opposite side on Sunday, which meant the sun was behind me, but the Roman encampment with its metal-intensive display of armors and other Shiny Roman Stuff (TM) was behind our musketeers.
EDITED to include some of the ones I'm very happy with. (Go behind cut to see more.)
This is a good example of a shot that improved vastly once I cropped it. Besides, Chris looks so badass....
This awkward gap in formation was magnified by where I happened to be standing and the spear toss going on behind it.
It works MUCH better once it's cropped into two separate images.
Anyone who photographs animals or small children knows how hard it can be. Clarice was a far more obliging subject than the rooster from San Juan Bautista.
Sure, Joe (kneeling) and Grant are two of our more photogenic members, but the Swedish salvee formation really makes for an interesting composition.
I'm trying to learn to be more ruthless as a photographer, however, the point was for our members to see themselves see themselves (yay!) doing what they do and we could conceivably cherry pick some of the better ones to go up on our woefully outdated website at some point. I discarded about eight to ten outright and then stayed up much later than I meant to last night scrolling through and trying to crop out visual clutter. It's such a little thing, but it can really make a difference. And we were in a visually cluttered environment. The Saturday demo I was facing our camp, which provided a nice background if I could work around the big blue trash can and roaming members of the general public, but it meant shooting into the sun. I shot from the opposite side on Sunday, which meant the sun was behind me, but the Roman encampment with its metal-intensive display of armors and other Shiny Roman Stuff (TM) was behind our musketeers.
EDITED to include some of the ones I'm very happy with. (Go behind cut to see more.)
This is a good example of a shot that improved vastly once I cropped it. Besides, Chris looks so badass....
This awkward gap in formation was magnified by where I happened to be standing and the spear toss going on behind it.
It works MUCH better once it's cropped into two separate images.
Anyone who photographs animals or small children knows how hard it can be. Clarice was a far more obliging subject than the rooster from San Juan Bautista.
Sure, Joe (kneeling) and Grant are two of our more photogenic members, but the Swedish salvee formation really makes for an interesting composition.
