Various Events in Goioere
16/12/08 12:45
Right, I have had a look through the events we have done here so far, and without showing photos of kids from whose parents I don’t have release forms (i.e. none of them) then I don’t really have enough to justify a folder in the portfolio from any event in particular, so I will just discuss the events and what we did and where possible illustrate with safe photos. So here goes.
I have done hat and gown shots of two kids on separate occasions who for one reason or another didn’t make it to the graduation ceremonies having to copy the style of the guy they imported from the next town which was basically umbrella lighting against a backdrop - we had to make do with a wall in both instances and of course only the one brolly as opposed to the two that the pro would have had.
On 9th December there where two events with the school. In the morning they had a sort of sports/fun day at a local centre here which was great. Whilst the teachers where setting things up, the kids took to a slope on the grounds armed only with bits of corrugated cardboard which led to some great action shots. I got right in with my lens at 18mm for some good wide angle stuff. Moving on to the main events there were a few different races between the three teams (there where perhaps 80 kids in total, not a big school) first off was a sack relay followed by a water balloon relay
followed by a treasure hunt looking for paper flowers of different sizes. One team managed to find all three of the big five pointer flowers plus loads of the little one pointers and took the whole thing away from the other teams who had won one of the races each. Last thing was a water slide which got pretty crowded before the head teacher managed to put some discipline into it, I got there before she did which made for some hilarious photos. Unfortunately, I can’t really show any of those on here...
That evening the same school did a Christmas presentation for the parents which was nice except that the main part of the evening was done in almost pitch darkness as their flood lights trip the electricity at the moment. As all school asset rich, cash poor so we had to make do with on camera flash, and in fact we both ended up with the pop-up flashes from our cameras. The candle-lit ending came out brilliantly on my 50mm f/1.8 though, so it wasn’t a complete loss! Whilst my wife was suffering in the main area I went scouting to see if I could find anything or anywhere to get a better photo and found Gabriel along with Mary and Joseph waiting in the wings (no pun intended):
Two days later we had our maternity shoot with Jessica, and on Sunday we had a musical recital of the Heitor Villa Lobos Musical Conservatory who where celebrating their 25th anniversary with this recital. Christmas is very definitely on its way as you can see from this first photo:
This Val is who called us to do some photography for the event. She is the second in command of the Conservatory after Ester pictured below:
Ester and one of her ex-students played the closing piece. This student has gone on and studied music through university and came back to Goioere specially for this recital (note the pro guy at the back):
And both of them together:
Sisters Joice and Larissa played beautifully and I really liked the posed shot from after the event when I set up my brolly.
There where many lovely kids who played as well and I really loved the whole thing.
Joice is one of the three girls we will be doing a shoot with tomorrow which will be interesting.
Last night after returning from the ‘Arrival of Father Christmas’ which was fairly naff to be honest with you I noticed the sky was looking pretty cool after we had turned off the lights so using the metal grid on the window, I took some shots of the night which I was pretty impressed with:
I loved the way the light from something going on over that direction spilled across the sky. It surprised me even more by showing up on the photo; normally you need a polarising filter to see rays like this. That would definitely have needed a tripod!
Right... I need to finish picking the photos from the recital to give to Val and Ester hopefully today so until next time o/ Read More...
I have done hat and gown shots of two kids on separate occasions who for one reason or another didn’t make it to the graduation ceremonies having to copy the style of the guy they imported from the next town which was basically umbrella lighting against a backdrop - we had to make do with a wall in both instances and of course only the one brolly as opposed to the two that the pro would have had.
On 9th December there where two events with the school. In the morning they had a sort of sports/fun day at a local centre here which was great. Whilst the teachers where setting things up, the kids took to a slope on the grounds armed only with bits of corrugated cardboard which led to some great action shots. I got right in with my lens at 18mm for some good wide angle stuff. Moving on to the main events there were a few different races between the three teams (there where perhaps 80 kids in total, not a big school) first off was a sack relay followed by a water balloon relay
followed by a treasure hunt looking for paper flowers of different sizes. One team managed to find all three of the big five pointer flowers plus loads of the little one pointers and took the whole thing away from the other teams who had won one of the races each. Last thing was a water slide which got pretty crowded before the head teacher managed to put some discipline into it, I got there before she did which made for some hilarious photos. Unfortunately, I can’t really show any of those on here...That evening the same school did a Christmas presentation for the parents which was nice except that the main part of the evening was done in almost pitch darkness as their flood lights trip the electricity at the moment. As all school asset rich, cash poor so we had to make do with on camera flash, and in fact we both ended up with the pop-up flashes from our cameras. The candle-lit ending came out brilliantly on my 50mm f/1.8 though, so it wasn’t a complete loss! Whilst my wife was suffering in the main area I went scouting to see if I could find anything or anywhere to get a better photo and found Gabriel along with Mary and Joseph waiting in the wings (no pun intended):
Two days later we had our maternity shoot with Jessica, and on Sunday we had a musical recital of the Heitor Villa Lobos Musical Conservatory who where celebrating their 25th anniversary with this recital. Christmas is very definitely on its way as you can see from this first photo:
This Val is who called us to do some photography for the event. She is the second in command of the Conservatory after Ester pictured below:
Ester and one of her ex-students played the closing piece. This student has gone on and studied music through university and came back to Goioere specially for this recital (note the pro guy at the back):
And both of them together:
Sisters Joice and Larissa played beautifully and I really liked the posed shot from after the event when I set up my brolly.
There where many lovely kids who played as well and I really loved the whole thing.
Joice is one of the three girls we will be doing a shoot with tomorrow which will be interesting.
Last night after returning from the ‘Arrival of Father Christmas’ which was fairly naff to be honest with you I noticed the sky was looking pretty cool after we had turned off the lights so using the metal grid on the window, I took some shots of the night which I was pretty impressed with:
I loved the way the light from something going on over that direction spilled across the sky. It surprised me even more by showing up on the photo; normally you need a polarising filter to see rays like this. That would definitely have needed a tripod!
Right... I need to finish picking the photos from the recital to give to Val and Ester hopefully today so until next time o/ Read More...
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