Korean Festival -- 7/10/2010

The thing I like the best about the Korean Festival is the colorful Costumes. This year is no exception and Erick, CD and I braved sun and some drizzle to catch all the entertainment. This year was a bit overcast, so the lighting was not as harsh on stage so my setting at shutter speed of 1/200 and sometimes higher worked out pretty good to capture sharp shots.
A performer from Korea performed the dance w/ the scarf.
This year, as with last year, the chinese lion dance group was invited to perform.
It was amazing the sound that came from this small bamboo instrument.
There was a Korean singing contest with prizes like a round trip ticket to Korea and a 42" flat screen TV. Even though I didn't know what they were singing about, I thought there were pretty good singers. After the sun set, the Korean pop singer performed. My flash didn't work too well w/ my zoom lens and it was really dark. I had to do some photoshop to get the color of his jacket corrected and still I can't get the olive green color back w/o messing up his skin tone. Maybe next time, I'll stick to my 50mm. I happened to look up and saw the beautiful lighting on the tip of the band stand and I decided to take a shot.