Leeds' Magical Lantern Festival - now on

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Hi all

I went to this last night and took a few snaps, they're here if you want to take a look - I would have posted them on TP but there's 45 of them !!! lol

http://www.davidgoodierphotography.co.uk/leeds-magical-lantern-festival-2016/

If you have kids, and wellies, then its worth a look as I (and my 19yr & 25yr old) enjoyed it

WARNING - its pretty pricey I guess at £14 per adult or, I think it was, £42 for a family of 4, but its defo something different and it even photographs nicely enough :)

More info here... http://www.magicallantern.uk/yorkshire/

Cheers

Dave
 
Some nice clean shots there, did you do much processing on them?
 
LASTOLITE said:
Some nice clean shots there, did you do much processing on them?
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I ran the lot through Lightroom at the same settings - so no not really much processing at all

The basic settings were -60 highlights, plus 60 shadows, plus 20 contrast, 10 clarity, 10 vibrance, 10 saturation, and my usual settings for everything else :)

Dave
 
Some nice vibrant pics there, have to say tho your watermarks are very intrusie, but hey i guess tht is the point.
 
Mr Bump said:
your watermarks are very intrusie, but hey i guess tht is the point.
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This is the watermark I apply to Proofing Wedding photos, the idea of course being that they don't print them lol - I should have used a smaller one really but I wanted to get it online, and in truth I don't really expect people to see that post, its just all about making Google happy that I have an active website :D

Dave
 
Love it looks really good fun, and great shots.

Its something that I most definitely haven't mastered yet. I better get practising as soon I'm going to a Bruce Munro light installation at Waddesdon Manor.
 
DG Phototraining said:
This is the watermark I apply to Proofing Wedding photos, the idea of course being that they don't print them lol - I should have used a smaller one really but I wanted to get it online, and in truth I don't really expect people to see that post, its just all about making Google happy that I have an active website :D

Dave
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The watermark is not intrusive at all imho, but them you will have been paid for your work at a wedding before you shoot it I expect, my speculative shoots need heavy watermarking to stop the parents from pinching them as they have when I was more trusting...
 
LASTOLITE said:
The watermark is not intrusive at all imho, but them you will have been paid for your work at a wedding before you shoot it I expect, my speculative shoots need heavy watermarking to stop the parents from pinching them as they have when I was more trusting...
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Maybe I should make it bigger then for my Wedding clients :D

Dave
 
Loath to be negative about a photo display, especially when they are nice pics, but flippin eck Dave.........its a slow loader..:)

The lantern festival has been on my maybe list since it opened but I keep getting bog off looks every time I mention "Roundhay Park" and "night" in the same sentence..:(
 
joxby said:
Loath to be negative about a photo display, especially when they are nice pics, but flippin eck Dave.........its a slow loader..:)

The lantern festival has been on my maybe list since it opened but I keep getting bog off looks every time I mention "Roundhay Park" and "night" in the same sentence..:(
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lol - loads fast enough where I am, maybe if you move out of your cave? :D

On a more serious note, web load speeds is really tricky to manage sometimes. I follow a respected chap who says any image of 400-500kb and 2000px longest is fine as modern internet is fast enough to handle bigger images, and yet others still suggest 100kb and less than 1000px as a max for fast loading, but then some say smaller images aren't good enough these days. PITA I reckon

I'm hoping for a major overall over the Chrimbo period and optimising images in px & kb will be one such area to look at :)

Dave
 
Givvover, we don't live in caves in wakey anymore, in the 21st century we're in hovels, they're less substantial than caves but sweep away easier after eviction
that's the throw away society for you...:)

I'm thinking maybe it loads slowly because they're all trying to load at the same time, or maybe there's too many on the page I dunno, it is shop till you drop sunday though, I get 2 or 3 loading quick then its a scroll through 25 frames of buffer face with not much happening but spinny things.
 
joxby said:
Givvover, we don't live in caves in wakey anymore, in the 21st century we're in hovels, they're less substantial than caves but sweep away easier after eviction
that's the throw away society for you...:)

I'm thinking maybe it loads slowly because they're all trying to load at the same time, or maybe there's too many on the page I dunno, it is shop till you drop sunday though, I get 2 or 3 loading quick then its a scroll through 25 frames of buffer face with not much happening but spinny things.
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Wakey ???

Be far better off in t'cave mate :D

Dave
 
dejongj said:
Love it looks really good fun, and great shots.

Its something that I most definitely haven't mastered yet. I better get practising as soon I'm going to a Bruce Munro light installation at Waddesdon Manor.
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Quick hijack - the Munro installation has some good possibilities, but for the last couple of years he's not been especially imaginative, and this year he's just simply created acres of glowing balls on sticks. They can look good in a photo, but get a bit samey after a while - however it's enormously better than last year's effort (lots of internally lit 2 man tents with a 'radio' sountrack changing channels avery couple of seconds). Hopefully 2017 he'll be a bit more imaginative like he was in 2014. Waddesdon is also nice to see - 40min down the road from us.
 
That looks brilliant and not too far from me :-)
@DG Phototraining your photos make it look empty, were you just very patient or was it not overrun with crowds?
 
TopBanana said:
That looks brilliant and not too far from me :)
@DG Phototraining your photos make it look empty, were you just very patient or was it not overrun with crowds?
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Cheers :)

And - we went shortly after the evening start time of 5pm, so while there were quite a few people around it wasn't what you'd call busy. Also, and quite cleverly I think, the exhibits and the route around them doesn't allow for huge groups of people to be in your photos most of the time; so while a little patience was needed I wasn't pulling any hairs out :D

Go in boots or wellies though, the ground was very boggy in places

If it helps, all these photos were taken at 1000 ISO f2 to f2.8 and around 1/125 to 1/160th sec. I shot on manual, while setting the exposure based on just having some highlight alert flashing on the exhibits. As most of them are of an equal brightness I didn't change my settings by more than a stop or so for all of them. Enjoy :)

Dave
 
Great stuff, thanks Dave. With technical tips like that you should think about doing some sort of photography training ;)
 
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