Sunday, July 12, 2009

Korean Festival 7/11/09

We spent the afternoon in the hot sun watching the Korean Festival entertainment. There were lots of colorful costumes worn by the performers that made it great to shoot. This was the first time using my new zoom lens and I was able to get a lot of better closeups. I also learned to boost the colors post processing in PSE 7 so it also helped my shots a lot.
There were different dances with colorful and flowing costumes.
These performers are students at BYU.According to the announcer, this dancer represents a crane. There was a taekwando demonstration. They sure broke a lot of boards. There was even a Flamenco dance performance.
They invited other "global" performers like the Chinese Lion dance.
And also a Japanese Taiko performance.

4 comments:

jalna said...

Wow, beautiful costumes. Looks like you had a front and center seat. I had to work and was too tired to go check out the action. Glad you got to use your new lens!

celia said...

The color boost works so well with these beautiful outfits. I really like your action shot of the taewando demonstration. Very good job.

SW said...

Jalna, since I was sitting directly under the sun, no one wanted the seats so I lucked out. It was really HOT, though.

Erick said...

Very nice close-ups and the color is so cool! Now, aren't you glad you got that lens? Great shots!