County Fair

A few weekends ago the local county fair came to town, happened to be the same weekend that I got my new Canon 5D camera. (starting to love that camera) I usually like to drop by if I think the weather will give some interesting light. The last couple of years have been pretty sweet! However, this last time was the jackpot! Talk about getting some great light... it was fantastic! I couldn't have hoped for better.

So I headed out to the local midway and took some of these "rockin'" shots. I was playing around with some of the settings and color modes. These are all out of the camera, no tweaking for the most part. (only 2 out of all of them have been tweaked)


You have got to love a ride that pays homage to hurricanes - check out the 'car' names below, haha.


These are all in-camera B&W, pretty nice job I thought. It's great that you can set the "filter" you want for your BW, like the old days with film - yellow, orange, red, green - they all give a different look. Most of these were done with the red filter, hence the dark skies.



Ed the carny barker - he use to shoot weddings


As you can see below, some of the settings are over the top saturated, the colors can get wild! Truth be told it really looked that wonderful. Just the perfect time of day.


Saw these guys and needed to shoot a couple of portraits. If you come across this blog, call me - we'll do some more. Devo?



Thing just kept getting better. A rainbow appeared, it turned out to be a full horizon to horizon 180 degree arch.


The sky just got darker


And then the rainbow twined, pretty dang sweet!


Could the light get any better? what do you think?


This is my favorite time of day to photograph

1000 - 1250 ISO


Not set up, just a kid walking past, and a fast trigger finger.



One of my favorite lemonades, yumm!

As mentioned, all the photos but 2 are straight out of the camera. All hand held, no tripod. Just seeing what can be done at 1250 ISO in the dusk.

I'm pretty impressed with the 5D.