Photographer’s Note
Festival:
Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival
Location:
San Pedro, California
Background:
Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is the world's largest lobster festival and held annually in September. The festival offers discount Maine lobster meals and various entertainment such as street performances and concerts. A lobster meal is $17.00 plus $8.00 for an admission ticket. Next year, if you'd like to attend, I recommend getting a 2 dollar discount coupon for the admission from their website.
Photo:
These street performers are from Las Vegas. They are very talented and acrobatic. What I enjoyed the most is the performers' reaction while their friends were performing especially the facial expression, verbal feedback and a load of encouragement.
So in this photo, I decided to use a narrower DOF and focus on the reaction the performer's friends. The guy standing on the right is one of the most acrobatic among them. Since I'm still new to action photography, I missed his performances. Most of his shots I got are mostly useless.
Note:
If you look into the busy background of audience, you'll see a little kid wearing a lobster hat. It's not much but I hope that offers a dash of lobster festival essence.
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darrasin
(2860) 2006-09-26 19:26
Hello Nap! Very nice capture, it's also a good daily life capture too for California since skateboarding is so popular. What I particularly like about the composition is the clear expressions and reactions of the boys closest to the boarder in air. Good timing too!
Nice job!
Doug
jmdaoudal
(82) 2006-09-29 3:09
So you have the Lobster Festival, here we have the Cods 'one :-)). Nicely done well framed for this good moment of dance. I like very much those performances.
Compliments
jean michel
bakes888
(18189) 2006-10-02 4:18
Hi Nap. Great action photo. Well timed and composed shot. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.
feather
(49860) 2006-10-02 4:37
I like the expressions of the dancer's friends, especially the one squatting down as he looks afraid of being jumped on. You have captured a good moment of the street dancer.
Kath
jean-marie
(3088) 2006-10-04 4:53
Hello Nap,
Impressive, you clicked at the right time. I see one in the background which is worried and which wonders if he is not going to fall again on the head!
Bravo !
friendly,
Jean-Marie
Photo Information
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Copyright: Nap Niyomtham (napdsp)
(732) - Genre: People
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2006-09-16
- Categories: Festivals, Decisive Moment
- Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM, RAW @ ISO 100, B+W 77mm 50% ND (0.3)
- Exposure: f/4.5, 1/400 seconds
- Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
- Date Submitted: 2006-09-26 16:28








