Mayfaire 2014 ren fest photos

[Consul]

I went to a not-so-nearby renaissance festival, called Mayfaire, this past Saturday, and I took a bunch of pictures. So far, I've processed 28 of what I feel are the best ones.

It was a bright, beautiful, sunny day, which is wonderful weather for an outdoor festival, but terrible weather for photography. Nevertheless, I think I did pretty good, considering the lighting was working against me.

Here's the set: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dmlandrum/sets/72157644832926295/

This was also the big test of my new Tamron 28-75mm lens. It's a pretty good lens, perfect for walk-around photography like this.

 

[okgb]

Pix look pretty good! vibrant , how did you process them ? shot raw ?
No wide shots of the area or buildings ?

 

[Consul]

Thank you!

My focus is always on the costumers and performers. My goal is to get some of them to actually respond to my emails in the hopes I can do photo shoots with them in more controlled environs, but so far, no dice.

I shoot raw with my Canon T4i, a camera I wouldn't have bought if I'd known I would be more into photography instead of video. It does a decent enough job, I suppose.

 

[Consul]

I went back and recropped a number of photos to square format. I've been processing some more, and I'm taking them all to square format. I think I might have found a style that I really like. I might have to shoot with that style in mind in the future.

Anyway, I uploaded a few more to the same set if anyone's interested.