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Honk For Democracy
Honk For Democracy
giantmike


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Challenge: Street Photography IV (Minimal Editing I*)
Camera: Canon EOS-50D
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: Madison, WI
Date: Feb 12, 2011
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Political, Street
Date Uploaded: Feb 12, 2011

 I'm guessing this will be a middle of the pack photo, but I'm still not very good at street photography, so this is about the best I could do.

Went out to downtown Madison this afternoon with the sole focus of seeing what I could come up with for this. I'm not too comfortable taking photos of people, so this type of challenge is actually quite difficult for me. I did get lucky and found a group of Egypt supporters. I took a handful of photos at different angles, and finally came out with this one.

I setup my camera before going out to take three bracketed exposures (at -2/3, -1/3, and 0) and a custom picture style with high sharpness, contrast, and saturation. This picture style worked out pretty well, as it gave the JPEG some decent life that the other picture styles never delivered in the past.

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Nikon D80
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX
 02/17/2011 11:13:26 PM
Honk!
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 02/17/2011 11:07:17 PM
A blend of street photography and photo journalism.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D7200
Nikon AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
 02/17/2011 05:35:30 PM
Very fitting for today.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D800
Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 EX APO IF HSM for Nikon
 02/16/2011 11:49:28 PM
I wonder what the Arabic says! Nice street shot. What gets me about these placard carrying is there's always someone else willing to put life on the line for their ideals...
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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