Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beddoe, Neil > I'm afraid I have to strongly disagree. The Great British Beer Festival is > indeed a wonderful occasion but only useful in a photographic context if you > like your pictures to be out of focus, badly framed, overexposed, and > containing a large number of pictures of a big hairy bloke and his very > scary 50 year old girlfriend in her satin cycle shorts. > > At least that's what mine were like when I tried to photograph a beer > festival while also actively participating.<<<<< Aaaaahhh but Neil, the way to do this is shoot like crazy everything moving for the first half hour of the day / evening.... put cameras away.... sit back and play! :-) Then it doesn't matter because you've got all the neat stuff in the can before you get ... well you know what I mean! ;-) The best beer bash I've ever attended for photos and of course a litre or two, ;-) is the Munich Oktoberfest in Germany!! Great picture opportunites and people who are truly interested in having a good time ! :-) ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html