Peru Circus City Festival Parade

I took almost 900 shots during the parade as I tried to capture everything moving down the street as well as some of the crowd and a few buildings to create social and physical context for the event.

For next year, I plan to make the following changes:

1. Reduce my settings for vividness and color saturation. I had these set too high, and this ended up blowing out the colors on a few of the shots. In some cases, the reds were just too red.

2. Find a better location. I found myself fighting two elements I didn't have to contend with during my shooting of the Haynes Apperson parade. First, there were people jumping into my foreground. Second, I couldn't see far enough down the street to maximize my use of the telephoto lens. As a result, I got a lot of side shots, which weren't the best. For next year, I might head further down Broadway toward the end of the parade. I would still need to be on the east side of the street to avoid shooting into the sun. Unfortunately, Broadway is the only location on the parade route that doesn't put heavy shadows on the faces of those in the parade. In fact, the first 50 or so images I took were of the parade heading west, and when I realized the shadows were causing problems I headed to Broadway for the rest of the parade. (I shot into the east for the Haynes Apperson parade, but that also started 2 hours later in the day.)

3. Decrease aperture for sharper images.

4. Consider upgrading to a better lens.

5. Increase ISO to 200. (Thanks to Kokomo1 on the Kokomo Tribune talk forum for that helpful tip).

That's all. :)

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items are from 21 Jul 2007.