Indian Pow-wow

[AZAlphaDog]

Native American dancers.

I don't know where to put this - people or performing arts - They are dancers, so here is where it goes. . .

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2637/4094532266_5d978dfc16_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2702/4094532298_964aae7895_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2747/4094532340_e6d924bb30_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2439/4093769411_4e90582feb_o.jpg

[badnad]

Doug,
Nice shots. Take a look at these and offer your CC please; http://murphyphotography.smugmug.com/Events/Bandera-Days-2008-Indian-Pow/5856937_fQ9Fo#432270346_iv6df
and also; http://murphyphotography.smugmug.com/Events/Celebrate-Bandera-2009/2nd-Annual-Pow-Wow/9952787_96ojP#679569726_mKs26

Thanks,
Chuck

[Brikwall]

Colours are wonderful, but I see these more as portraits. Looser crops may have helped to better show the motion/movement of the dancers.

[400dabuser]

Love the colours, like the first one where the focus is on the one in purple, and not the one in the foreground

[johnstoy]

Interesting subjects and composition...

[AZAlphaDog]

The biggest problem when shooting one of these type of events is the backgrounds (mostly ugly EZ-ups or bleachers that are not far enough away to blur with big apertures).

This is the reason I cropped and composed these shots the way I did.

Chuck, this would be the only comments I would have on your shots, you've got some winners but mostly I would say watch your backgrounds. Bad backgrounds can kill good shots and be very distracting to the viewers.

I got some looser crops but the backgrounds make the images somewhat less dramatic and they tend to lose the separation between the subject and the background which makes the image look kind of "snap-shot" ish.

I'll process some and post them up later.

[ckfishel2001]

Love the colors!

[Cyclop]

Nice series.

[4g63]

very colorful!