Prana

Indian Voices in the Park



Indian Voices in the Park. A few images of groups and portraits from Sunday 16th August 09 Hyde Park in London. I was the official photographer.



Free performances of folk music and dance from Rajasthan (including ghoomer dance) and Gujarat (including ras and garba dances). The day was sunny and half of the canvas stage (without lights) was in the shade the other in bright white light. So some obstacles to overcome. I compensated for some bight light by using an (on camera flash...sorry to strobists) this was stopped down 1 or 2 stops and helps maintain a natural skin tone without blowing out all the highlights completely.

The canvas tent actually helped with shielding and filtering light onto the musicians and dancers and this had the effect of using reflectors and screens and gave me a nice light around peoples faces without any harsh shadows. So once under the shade of canvas I did not use flash and tended to use the lenses open to f2.8 and a relatively fast shutter for the dancers and kept that setting for the musicians.

A welcome to the new blog followers. The last week or so has seen me do 3 shoots with more coming up so not so much time to blog or post images to facebook etc.

A funny story to tell you about my little boy. When driving to a job last week with my wife and family in the car we were listening to The Archers (A radio programme about country folk in the made up village of Ambridge, its been going for 40 years).

My wife repeated the story line "Oh No, Jezza has slit up with Annette" my little boy as quick as a flash said " A net what sort of net, fishing net, a goal net, Mummy how do you split up with a net?"

He didn't like it when we couldn't stop laughing.