Flowers of paper Photo

Photographer’s Note

The Tray Festival is essentially a festival of colour and movement.
One of the most characteristic ways of the population showing their joy for the realization of the Festival is decorating their streets and calling the public because the majority is found in the historic centre of the city where the parochialism still lives.
This way, hundreds of people spend thousands of hours working for more than six months making thousands of paper flowers that they will be using to decorate their streets. The decoration is of their authorship and responsibility and it is always kept secret until Friday night when the official opening of the decorated streets is announced. The talent and the work of the “decorators” is rewarded and evaluated by the Committee that offer plaques that reward the Colour, Harmony and Tradition being contemplated all the competing streets.

http://www.tabuleiros.org/site/historial.htm

Nikon D40X
2007/07/08 16:34:34.5
Compressed RAW (12-bit)
Image Size: Large (3872 x 2592)
Color
Lens: 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 D
Focal Length: 300mm
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Center-Weighted
1/1000 sec - F/6.3
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 200
Optimize Image: Custom
White Balance: Direct sunlight
AF Mode: Manual
Color Mode: Mode IIIa (sRGB)
Tone Comp.: More Contrast
Hue Adjustment: +6°
Saturation: Enhanced
Sharpening: Medium high
Long Exposure NR: Off
VR Control: Off
High ISO NR: Off

saylan-cb, pat0500, salvator, rjb874, sabyasachi1212, bakes888, belido, jafadabret, scobert, Charo has marked this note useful

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saylan-cb (12726) 2007-07-11 12:54

Hi Goncalo
Superbb idea...
Great colours...
Nice composition...
Well done...
TFS/Regards

devimeuxbe (56334) 2007-07-11 13:05

Hi Goncalo
This is an interesting vision. The wall of flower are amazing. It give nice colors and it's nice to get also human touch.
Excellent
Bertrand

salvator (18933) 2007-07-11 13:55

Hi Goncalo,
Nice one with the colorful perspective. The bright and vivid colors, the sharpness on the flowers are very nice.
Best regards. Salvator.

Scharan (13955) 2007-07-11 16:03

Olá Gonçalo

Deve ser muito lindo ver as ruas todas ornamentadas com flores de papel...o visual é bem colorido, aqui no caso é marcante o contraste de cores. Bom trabalho.

Grande abraço,
Vera.

sabyasachi1212 (19546) 2007-07-11 21:06

Hi Goncalo,
Well chosen POV and perfect focus too. Good use of the shallow DOF.
With Greetings from India
Sabyasachi

bakes888 (18327) 2007-07-12 2:25

Hi Goncalo. Great photo. You have chosen you POV well. Good use of shallow DOF also. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.

jrj (34779) 2007-07-12 3:15

You keep up with well made compos of the festival G. Also this one is well made and have an interesting disposing with use of the colourful details and keeping the dof for the background visitors.

belido (16813) 2007-07-12 4:33

Olá amigo Gonçalo,

que bela profundidade de campo você conseguiu aqui. O contraste conseguido desses verde e vermelho está muito bom e gostei do foco nessas flores, com as pessoas desfocadas no segundo plano. Bela captura. Colorida e natural. Parabéns!
Abraço,
Carlos

pat0500 (21513) 2007-07-12 6:16

Olá Goncalo,
Lovely great picture here and very nice perspective of the beautiful flowers..!
A very beautiful work of these artists, very amazing view indeed...I like it...!
Good lighting and very pretty colours too...!
Best regards, Um Abraço...
Patrick

agbonavita (0) 2007-07-12 8:40

Que belas cores Gonçalo. Gostei mesmo dessa parede que lembra as cores do meu time de futebol. O foco sobre essa parede ficou excelente, deixando as pessoas desfocadas, mas sem comprometer a presença delas ali.

Abraço
Andre

Rosa (4147) 2007-07-12 8:47

Bonsoir Goncalo,
Très intéressante cette image avec ces fleurs en papier, joli ce flou donner ici, superbes couleurs
Bien vus bravo
Amitiés,
Rosa.

xuaxo (5835) 2007-07-12 10:12

Olá Gonçalo,
A visão geral da imagem é bonita, mas falta aqui qualquer coisa que prenda mais a atenção.
Um abraço,
F

jafadabret (40315) 2007-07-13 4:23

Gonçalo bonjour.
Une ambiance de fête bien rendue avec ce mur de fleurs en papier de toutes les couleurs. Les passants animent bien la photo. Beau travail.
Jacques

scobert (5333) 2007-07-13 8:03

Hello Goncalo,
You did a great job of capturing this colorful event! Your perspective is outstanding with the paper flowers dominating the foreground. It is obvious that you gave this photograph a great deal of thought. Surperb composition. Well done!
Stan

paura (39202) 2007-07-13 15:44

Gonçalo,
As cores ficaram muito belas nessa sua composição. O ponto de tomada foi interessante para o belo resultado.

Paulo

barrufeto_77 (25935) 2007-07-15 22:02

Hi Goncalo.

Excellent effect you got with these flowers and the blurred background.

Rgs, Oscar

Charo (31779) 2007-07-22 1:43

Hola Goçalo,
Una foto original llena de color y buena perspectiva.
Cordialmente
Charo

brevbrev14 (372) 2007-07-23 1:34

Hola Goncalo!
i like a lot this image!
bravo to show this particular place!
the image is so well taken and ocmposed , with a great use of the DOF!
bravo!
ciao!
Valeria

Photo Information

Copyright: Goncalo Lopes (Bluejeans) (33049)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-07-08
Categories: Festivals
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 4300, Sigma 28-300mm F3.5-6.3 Macro, Hama Circular Polarizer 62mm
Exposure: f/6.3, 1/1000 seconds
Map: view
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-07-11 12:49