Saturday, June 14, 2008
Happiness is a Marching Band
Comments:
This looks like one of those photos that people use for captioning contests: "When Batman and the Mad Hatter Marched to War"
It's interesting how the right edge of Batman would seem to fit right up against the left edge of the Mad Hatter. Almost like tectonic plates . . .
What is this event?
What is this event?
And please tell us you were only there in a journalistic capacity...
My only non-superlative comment about this is to wonder if some selective desaturation, or mabe even a monochrome treatment, might not deal with the bright background colours and let the subject shine through even more.
Take the superlatives as read :-)
Thanks for the comment.
The background has been 'darkened' in levels and some of the bright colours desaturated.
It was the village fete, face painters, Morris dancers, batman band and lots more.
An early outing with the 50-200mm.
What a great moment captured. Perfect -- and very entertaining.
I imagine that monochrome would also work, but I might miss the color stripes on the drumsticks.
This one just keeps on making me laugh. The title is great, the mans expression is well caught, Batman with gut.
The blues on Batman, his drum stick, the hat on the man behind him, on the tent in the background and the top on the man top left tie the scene up well. I find all of the varying greens and their shapes interesting as well.
The world's worst super hero, LOL.
Has nobody in the village told him that his figure isn't quite up to it?! Is this the time of unripe apples as it looks as though he has just bitten into one? Plenty of English eccentricities on display at the fete by the look of it.
Not the happy little drummer boy is he? The guy behind looks remarkably like The Penguin. Further back looks like the head of Bart Simpson... The You can feel Batman's glum smile and his mask cannot hide the matching gloom in his eyes. Sure he thought it was a good idea at some stage...probably just before closing time a few days before the fair.
Too good to be true. I agree that Batman doesn't appear to be a strong candidate for a repeat performance next year. I can't look at it without smiling.
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It's interesting how the right edge of Batman would seem to fit right up against the left edge of the Mad Hatter. Almost like tectonic plates . . .
What is this event?
And please tell us you were only there in a journalistic capacity...
My only non-superlative comment about this is to wonder if some selective desaturation, or mabe even a monochrome treatment, might not deal with the bright background colours and let the subject shine through even more.
Take the superlatives as read :-)
The background has been 'darkened' in levels and some of the bright colours desaturated.
It was the village fete, face painters, Morris dancers, batman band and lots more.
An early outing with the 50-200mm.
I imagine that monochrome would also work, but I might miss the color stripes on the drumsticks.
The blues on Batman, his drum stick, the hat on the man behind him, on the tent in the background and the top on the man top left tie the scene up well. I find all of the varying greens and their shapes interesting as well.
The world's worst super hero, LOL.