Carnival of Binche
February 18th, 2007
I had in mind to make a small series of images of the carnival, I had pictures of Gilles of Binche in head and oranges, visibly good gin and orange is the Mardi Gras, which often falls on a Tuesday ...
So Sunday is the day of costumes and colors, light level not a ray of sunshine, but a beautiful light filtered through white clouds, I love this light it is really ideal for portraits, no shadows, super light ouateuse homogeneous enough.
I decide, as is always the case to carry a single card 2 gigs of memory so I can make up to 120 pictures which I think is quite sufficient.
I hold the d200 in spot metering, the important thing for me is to fully expose a face if the rest of the image has some areas cramées I do not pay attention, a correction of +0.7 IT expo and I went. (I like to have made clear and a lot of dynamics that is right in the curve).
I made a few shots in the afternoon nothing very interesting has already passed the procession and not revert 17h and actually has the procession passes only my grasp of around 17h.
The light is already quite low at this time of day I put the box in ISO 500.
I decided to start directly portraits in 80/200 knowing that time is against me and that I would soon light necessary for such portraits.
Despite the long lens, I am in full procession, I made a couple of portraits, the pictures are beautiful, but I'm too far from the action, I unscrew the blunderbuss and replace it with the Sigma 18/50, faster, moin sniper, I'm going to touch the camera at wide angle is made mostly less than a meter of topics, I will not budge from its wide angle (18mm).
The lights go down drastically and even at ISO 1600 to 2.8 I find it hard to get something decent.
I decided to play around with the indirect flash, the box in one hand the flash arm's length in the other (long live the Nikon wireless system!).
The photos were derawitisées in Capture One (Phase One) and exported to JPEG for the Web, no cropping, selective correction.
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February 19th, 2007 at 1:17
Wow, awesome work!, I also take some pictures and I am far from such a result!
And when I see the official photos of the event ... as there is a difference ...
http://www.carnavaldebinche.be/page.php?lang="12
February 19th, 2007 at 10:31
Rhaaa! Superb. Frankly if I were on HFR without seeing the nick, I have said, that's the Riderfou. But this is not the youngest and it is beautiful.
I shot myself in Bailleul yesterday, I do not know if you know, it's not far from Ypres, but the French side. And I do not know if I would go out much. I have a 18-55, I expect my 50 1.8 that would have been helpful yesterday.
But it is clear that some times I thought looking at the crowd: "Damn, if I had a 80-200, what I'd shoot!"
This is the 80-200 which has a bokeh on extra photos from the series, I'm not mistaken?
Anyway if I buy it will zoom it!
In fact I think the secret of this kind of rendering is the flash management in these cases. Is that right?
February 19th, 2007 at 11:43
Hello,
The 80/200 gives a good bokeh effectivment, otherwise the pictures at 80/200 no flash!
February 19th, 2007 at 9:04
BenB hello, very pretty pictures and a pretty good carnival! I find them a bit overexposed on some but I read that this choice was therefore assumed ...
Good luck
February 21st, 2007 at 2:39
Verily beautiful, beautiful story when looking around I found some pictures made by another photographer of the event, and the comparison is impressive
http://reportages.baikrich.com/binche2007/dimpm/index.htm
February 21st, 2007 at 10:42
I think especially as the hardware and the approach is different
February 21st, 2007 at 12:25
Very nice series, very colorful and lively ...
A very good transcript of the carnival atmosphere, with the master tehcnique and more .. Well done
February 23rd, 2007 at 8:52
Portraits that I like a firework of colors! Congratulations Benjamin
February 26th, 2007 at 2:58
I'm on my ass, I saw many pictures of this carnival and nothing looks like what you have achieved, the general level, congratulations!
February 26th, 2007 at 10:21
hello benjamin, I discovered your site ... and I'm a fan! very nice job of it all .. your link is placed in my favorites:) congratulations and good luck!
March 2nd, 2007 at 1:48
I was looking for pictures of this 2007 edition of carnival and more precisely of the fat Sunday.
And I fall on your pictures of the event, I have just visited the official photos, astonishing thing we recognize the protagonists of your photos but especially acknowledge your professionalism and quality of your cliches! The comparison is blufante!
The official photos taken at the same time
http://www.carnavaldebinche.be/page.php?menu="0">
March 9th, 2007 at 8:40
Thank you for the photo carna34 ... that's me!
March 12th, 2007 at 2:01
Maurice thank you! Yeah just that!
February 9th, 2009 at 2:04
Superb story!! As magical as our carnival of Binche!! A forthcoming report deserves exposure