Night Fair

Fair · 08:52 PM

Another shot

**pentaximus** · 10-03-2011, 09:33 PM

Brilliant colors! is the lattice effect the result of some filter, or just caused by the ferris wheel lights? Excellent!

BirdDude007 · 10-04-2011, 07:20 PM

Originally posted by pentaximus

Brilliant colors! is the lattice effect the result of some filter, or just caused by the ferris wheel lights? Excellent!

You are right , i used a 6 point star filter I picked up real cheap a couple weeks ago at a pawn shop, I decided to wander around the fair with it on my kit lens and basically practice with it. many of the shots I ended up with by the end of the night i was rather surprised with. Thanks for the critique.

daacon · 10-05-2011, 05:01 AM

The effect works well here.

BirdDude007 · 10-05-2011, 05:49 PM

Originally posted by daacon

The effect works well here.

Thanks so much, I aure appreciate the feed back, even though I have dropped out of this level of photography for about 15 years I feel like there is so much to learn over, I feel blessed to be able to capture images such as this, your feed back lets me know inside that I just may be catching back on.
Photography used to be my passion but things happened in life that made it darn near impossible to stay doing it. I did however always have a P&S camera with me at all times during those fifteen years. Back in May I graduated an online graphic design course diploma and I found that when I had to go and find images on the internet to use in my designs it really sparked my intrest back into photography because I felt like I should be getting out there and getting the images myself.
The night I shot this image I was at a local small town fair and as it got darker I totally got into taking many different shots at everything, I was amazed at the abundance of cool images a person can get one of these places. The only problems I had was sometimes my K-x wouldn't release the shutter when I pushed the button but I think I was overlooking something simple in the manual mode, I think I narrowed it down to the fact that I had the auto focus switch on and it wouldn't release the shutter until I was focused on what the camera thought I should have been focusing on.
All in all it was an awesome learning experience for me that night and I am looking forward to other times/occasions like it.

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10-03-2011, 09:33 PM	#2
pentaximus Site Supporter Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Covington, Georgia Photos: Gallery Posts: 926	Brilliant colors! is the lattice effect the result of some filter, or just caused by the ferris wheel lights? Excellent!

10-04-2011, 07:20 PM	#3
BirdDude007 Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Las Vegas NV Photos: Albums Posts: 784 Original Poster	Originally posted by pentaximus Brilliant colors! is the lattice effect the result of some filter, or just caused by the ferris wheel lights? Excellent! You are right , i used a 6 point star filter I picked up real cheap a couple weeks ago at a pawn shop, I decided to wander around the fair with it on my kit lens and basically practice with it. many of the shots I ended up with by the end of the night i was rather surprised with. Thanks for the critique.

10-05-2011, 05:01 AM	#4
daacon Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Alberta,Canada Photos: Gallery Posts: 20,914	The effect works well here.

10-05-2011, 05:49 PM	#5
BirdDude007 Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Las Vegas NV Photos: Albums Posts: 784 Original Poster	Originally posted by daacon The effect works well here. Thanks so much, I aure appreciate the feed back, even though I have dropped out of this level of photography for about 15 years I feel like there is so much to learn over, I feel blessed to be able to capture images such as this, your feed back lets me know inside that I just may be catching back on. Photography used to be my passion but things happened in life that made it darn near impossible to stay doing it. I did however always have a P&S camera with me at all times during those fifteen years. Back in May I graduated an online graphic design course diploma and I found that when I had to go and find images on the internet to use in my designs it really sparked my intrest back into photography because I felt like I should be getting out there and getting the images myself. The night I shot this image I was at a local small town fair and as it got darker I totally got into taking many different shots at everything, I was amazed at the abundance of cool images a person can get one of these places. The only problems I had was sometimes my K-x wouldn't release the shutter when I pushed the button but I think I was overlooking something simple in the manual mode, I think I narrowed it down to the fact that I had the auto focus switch on and it wouldn't release the shutter until I was focused on what the camera thought I should have been focusing on. All in all it was an awesome learning experience for me that night and I am looking forward to other times/occasions like it.