More Exit 270 Faces

I find that framing and timing are the key aspects of the faces of Exit 270.  You have to be aware of a person or group that seem to stand out within your space and then work quickly to capture their presence.  I will agree, that it is sometimes just plain luck being in the right spot at the right time.  Then other times it is a matter of just waiting and watching for that moment to happen in front of your camera.  I have been happy to say that no one has complained when I photographed him or her.  I have at all times respected my subjects’ rights not to be photographed.  Working with a Sony Nex7 camera and a 18-35mm zoom lens – allows me to work quickly in this genre of photography.

Los Meurtos

Dia de Los Meurtos, Exit 270 style.  It is the day we mourn those that left, and celebrates those that are here.  35,000 participants take part in the procession that winds for two miles through the downtown streets.  It can be best described as a cross between solemn and an Irish wake.  I shot over 150 photos of the participants in color, while the colors were vibrant and the painted faces were a rainbow of colors, I decided that a conversion to black and white was a better representation of the experience.  I used my street camera (Sony Nex7) with Sony f3.5 18-55mm lens and for wide shots the Sony f2.8 16mm coupled with their fisheye converter lens.  Most of the images were shot at ISO 100 through ISO 400.  I kept my aperture at f8 to f11 and with some help from Photoshop my imagination came to life.