Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan, these are great fun. An interesting glimpse into that local culture. I'm thinking that no-one gives that hostess senora any trouble when she has the sword in her hand! The last pic in the series shows those senoritas in amazing costumes! Fascinating. Cheers Geoff -----Original Message----- Subject: [Leica] Bocairent Moros y Cristianos fiesta 2008 Last Saturday, we were invited to a party in the small town of Bocairent, about 100 km from Alicante, to attend a party celebrating the beginning of the town's annual Moros y Cristianos fiesta, the biggest event of the year in that small town of about 4500 inhabitants. The lady in the striped shirt performing a dance with a sword is the hostess; the particular group we were with were Moros (whether one is a Moro or Cristiano in these fiestas is something that is passed on through generations). The pics are really just party pictures, and I made the gallery mainly for the people involved, but thought I might show them to a broader audience as well: http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4301077 All taken with the E3, with IS turned on, nominally at ISO 800 but given the amount of exposure correction I had to do in Lightroom, I was really shooting at ISO 1600. The IS was somewhat useful when people were not moving, but overall I think it is suited mostly to photographing buildings at night, not people having a good time. Nathan Nathan Wajsman nathan@nathanfoto.com General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.frozenlight.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information