Chinese New Year Festival

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Chinese New Year Festival

Postby Hlop on Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:24 pm

Hi All,

Would like to present some pictures from Chinese New Year Festival for your judgement :) First part (Belmore park) was captured with Nikkor 80-400VR, second part (Chinatown) - with kit lens

http://hlop.net/gallery/ChineseNY

PP: EV compensation, levels, curves, slight sharpening
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Postby Killakoala on Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:02 pm

They are really great pics. I reckon you've captured the moment very successfully. The candid portraits are just sensational, composition brilliant, i've run out of superlatives.

Very well done. Thanks for inspiring us.
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Postby birddog114 on Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:13 pm

Hilop,
You've done a marvellous job to capture the spirit of Chinese NY, colourful, great compose and lastly your efforts.
I used to do to Chinatown each chinese NY in the past but not anymore, they have same thing every year.
I have to shoot the Chinese NYE at the temple on Tuesday 8/2 with our Viet's culture and dragon dance same as fireworks at midnight will be long day for me.
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Postby stubbsy on Sun Feb 06, 2005 8:15 pm

Mikhail

Great shots. Wish they had something like this in Newcastle. You've really captured the colour and spectacle of this incredibly well. It's almost like I was there. I think the candids really round this out nicely. I particularly like ChineseNY-21.jpg where the exprssion on the faces of the two girls shows just how much fun they're having.
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Postby Hlop on Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:47 pm

Thanks guys! Glad to hear you like it :)

Also, I'd like to thank genij, who shared link with frames I used for this gallery
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Postby BBJ on Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:58 pm

Hi Mikhail, Mate i think they are great, we dont see that type of thing down here in the country and well i love the chinese dragons, great colour and well covered the spirit of the festival.
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Postby genji on Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:18 pm

glad i could be helpful :D

I like ChineseNY-19, looks like u really go into PJ spirit!!

i was intending visit to this years Chines New Year festivities in Melbourne, but I'll be in the Gold Coast.

maybe I'll visit the Gold Coast CNY festivities instead!
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