More Fringe

These are a few from The Royal Mile on 11th Aug 2012 - All were with the K7 and the Samyang 85mm @ f1.4 or f2, although I think in this selection all but one were at f1.4

For a long, long time the 10-17mm was fixed to my camera, now I can't get the Samyang 85mm - f1.4 off it.

I would need a lottery win for the Pentax 85mm AF - f1.4 But I still want one

Lovely pictures, my favourite is the first one. That's a professional-level stunning capture.

My that is one sharp lens, could be a bit unflattering for portraits.

These are absolutely superb. The shallow DOF makes such a massive difference to these sort of shots.

Hi, I love the last pictute, It does not seem as razor sharp and has some all round softness. A really lovable shot.

Horst

Thanks for the kind comments.

One of our other members was there on the same day, unfortunately, we missed each other, but he did comment how busy the place was.

I have gone to The Royal Mile quite a few times over the last few years, and have never seen it so busy near the start of the Festival.

Getting close to to people to take photographs took a lot of pushing, elbow nudges and words of one or two syllables.

The 85mm allowed me to get a shot or two without having getting too close, and at f1.4 the distracting background was put out of focus.

Hosrt, the last picture was PhotoShopped a bit, the girls were previewing a play from a war, so I softened and desaturated it a bit to fit in with the times, the original is very sharp.

The people on The Royal Mile during the festival are happy to have their picture taken, but 80% of the time I always ask first, and say, 'thank you', afterwards, now and again you get asked to post your pictures on their web pages, which is good. But, post very low resolution images, because I have been asked in the past for hi-res copies, which they are not keen to pay for, but they are happy to give you free tickets to future shows, so a bit of a trade off, I love taking the pictures, they like the images, and I may get a free day out

Yes very good indeed. They are all professional but like Zgabor I like #1 the most. Excellent mono.
There was more than one other PUF member there Galoot. I was there as well as Barrie Forbes and I posted a set of pictures in this forum on Monday.
David

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Hi David, i noticed a wee while after I posted.

The 'town' was so busy, after an hour or two I had to go.

Must have a 'phobia'.

I might try again this weekend.

I did see your images, and noticed you used the K-30.

When I saw them, I was in the process of constructing an email to you about that.

One or two things I would love to know.

I will message you in the next few days

J.

p.s. I was down near you in Ashington over the last couple of days, the place was fine, unfortunately the reason for me being there turned to shit.

That's Ashington for you.
At The Fringe the crowds got too bad for me so by the middle of the afternoon I went to chill out in Princess Street Gardens before catching the train back to Durham.
Barrie spent the weekend in the Borders and drove to Edinburgh. He used the park and ride to get into the centre.
David.

PPG: http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/davidtrout

David,

Loving it, too many people for me too, got my pictures and got the train home asap.

J.

4 is my favourite