For the past few years the Musketaquid Arts and Environment program of the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts in Concord has created an Earth Day parade and festival in Concord, MA. The Organization for the Assabet River, an organization I’m closely affiliated with, participates in the parade — in the past with a canoe on wheels accompanied by volunteers wearing colorful “fish hats”.
This year the imaginative OAR folks created a rather huge dragonfly, which given the occasional breeze we had in the morning was a bit of a challenge to control – but they did a wonderful job and it garnered oohs and ahhs along the route.
Parades are a great place to do photography — they are dynamic and generally everyone participating is in a good mood (once they get moving).
If you want to see a large gallery of images from the parade visit my events site: events.dmg-photography.com
I shot the parade with the 5D Mark 2 and recorded a bit of video along the way as well. I’ll try to get that edited together for a short clip next week.
The parade ends at the Emerson Umbrella and everyone spreads out to create a festival area with lots of information booths and a chance to grab some food.
The grab shot above has a bit of Lightroom tweaking: I used the adjustment brush (using auto-flow) to drop the exposure of the sky a half a stop. I added a bit of vignetting to try to bring your attention more towards the diners that their surroundings.
Hope you enjoyed these excerpts from this morning’s event. Again, you can see the full set of photos here.
Technical drivel: Canon 5D Mark 2 in Aperture Priority mode and auto-ISO (variable clouds and rapidly changing locations made this the best choice). I dialed it down 1/3rd of a stop. I switched between two workhorse lenses: 24-70 f/2.8 L and the 70-200 f/2.8 L. I meant to bring a monopod, but fortunately there was plenty of light and running around handheld worked just fine (except for the video — which I’ll talk about in another article).
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