Skateboarding, dancing, colour and sun.

[cyKey]

So Saturday was the Hub festival. It was mostly overcast, rained, and then was too hot. It was also full of kids. So 300 images later and I just wasn't really feeling like I'd captured the event. Still I got a few images I was happy with.

#1

#2

#3

#4

These guys were just nuts.

#5

Multi Purpose Chemical. Great band to see live, so much energy.

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[cyKey]

Then Sunday was the Southport Street Festival. Its kinda like the one I go to in Liverpool except without the hideous fencing, which was great.

#6

Ballet Entredanza. Always great to see.

#7

#8

A rather cool band.

#9

An abstract performance about life in a city.

#10

Some performance about life in Africa I think.

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[cyKey]

Then from a few nights ago a rather nice sunset.

#11

#12

#13

#14

Dreamspace is that thing in the news, the one that took off. Its amazing inside and such a shame to see its destroyed.

#15

The Eye of Ra.

 

[cyKey]

I love the first southport photo, it has such a surreal almost paint like quality....

Yeah I love that so much. You wouldn't think its Southport, its like some European capital or something.

 

[cyKey]

6 and dreamspace do it for me. all have great use of colour (or lack thereof) and lovely smooth edges.

i see what you mean about the hub. personally, i'd have taken them on a faster shutter and a wider aperture as they're not really drawing me into the trick as much as they should. the focus is on the rider and the board/bike, the rider and the motion are pretty irrelevant. problem with a stills camera, you have to get it so perfect or it just doesn't come off. there's so much to take into consideration, as they're constantly flinging bikes about everywhere!!

I didn't really think of changing the aperture. I was at last years event and I didn't really like the shots because they were too busy, so this year I planned for f/2.8 I've also been recently inspired by a photographer who I met in Toronto who does *amazing* panning shots on the streets of Toronto. So I was trying to do panning shots to kinda capture the craziness of their jumping.

Not keen on the shots from the Hub but the Southport ones are all very good, especially, as already mentioned, number 6. The sunset picture (11) is also brilliant

Yeah best I could get really. Its just not possible to get a decent angle and I just wasn't feeling it on the day. I'm happy enough with the results though.

 

[cyKey]

Great shots mate. Did you hdr #6?

Yeah. I did it twice because originally people thought the sky was too ott.

 

[cyKey]

Sweet. May I ask exactly how you hdr'd it? It seems as though this shot would have been taken at one exposure, so did you alter the exposure in post to get the three images, and make the hdr from those?

I did. Three shots from one image at -2, 0, +2.

 

[cyKey]

Only because you got the art center in the background...had it been Asda or a bunch of tramps the true reality of Southport would have been revealed

Haha. Maybe so Still, better than Liverpool's one.

Horrible horrible fencing.

Cykey, that dreamscape thing, is that the thing you were tking photos of last year, the day before the ships were in?

Andy

It was a very very small version last year. I was really disapointed.

 

[cyKey]

Excellent stuff pete, 3 and 11 are standouts to me, and 12 is awsome. I assume thats colourscape or whatever its called again?

Yeah it used to be Colourscape then it became Dreamspace.

 

[cyKey]

Wow........ amazing. The one of the sunset is breath taking.

Some amazing shots thtere mate

Thanks. I'm so lucky to live here. We get amazing sunsets each night and I love the effect my 24-70 gives.