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Postby stubbsy on Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:14 pm

More in my pics from Lunar New Year celebrations at the Phuoc Hue Temple last Saturday. Click a pic for a larger version:

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Postby big pix on Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:23 pm

Peter........ these are better.......
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Postby mudder on Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:37 pm

G'day,

The first one is like the calm before the storm...

The second is great framing and the exposure is bloody terrific! The way the detail's all there in the fireground and yet the fireworks stand out like that is great...

Looks like you've got the fireworks thing nailed...
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:42 pm

Peter I agree with Big Pix, these are an improvement over the middle batch, love #2 great sense of being there, you get the crowds the fireworks and Mr Vunerable (sp?).
#1 has a nice composition, I may have reduced the DOF a little to get the background ones a little more OOF (but that's just me).

#3 A nice fireworks shot, (are these traditional fireworks, they look different to NYE fireworks).
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Postby johndec on Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:14 pm

Peter, they are all great but #2 is almost perfect. If you could turn back time and shoot it in portrait with the important dude just offset to the left a touch and the top of the fireworks in the frame... Now that would be POTY for me! :lol:
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Postby radar on Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:22 pm

Hi Peter,

very good set these three, the first one is my farourite.

All very well exposed,

well done,

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Postby Slider on Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:03 pm

Great photos Peter. The 2nd one is the pick IMHO and the exposure is spot on.
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Postby marcotrov on Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:45 pm

Beautiful series Peter. I really think you have captured the essence of the event in #2. The composition and exposure are great :)
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Postby stubbsy on Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:31 pm

Bernie - Thanks. I agree, the lion dance while great to watch, just didn't capture well in those other shots
Andrew - Thanks - that second shot is more luck & VR than anything else since I was working without a tripod. I framed this and hoped - got about 10 blurry pics and two good ones - of which this was the best.
Craig - it's most venerable :) Thanks. Not sure if they are different fireworks or not.
John - Thanks - See above comment to Andrew. I actually took a couple framed like you suggest, but all were too blurry.
André - Thanks. First pic is something you normally don't get near. These were all wired up and fed back via really long serial cables to a control station.
Mark - Thanks
Marco - Thanks to you too.

Regarding #2 - check out the original uncloned version if you haven't seen it yet on page 2 of this thread on the merits of cloning.
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Postby Alpha_7 on Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:16 pm

[quote="stubbsy]Craig - it's most venerable :) Thanks. Not sure if they are different fireworks or not.
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Peter - Sorry about that, a few spelling mistakes and the whole meaning changes... Ooops :oops:
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:38 pm

Craig, it took me a while to get it right too.
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Postby ABG on Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:44 pm

Beautiful series of photos Peter. I really like the first image - as you say, it's not every day you get to see something like this. The second image is simply sensational - the viewer is drawn right into the event and you have totally nailed an extremely difficult exposure. Awesome!
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