Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/07

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Subject: [Leica] Bocairent Moros y Cristianos fiesta 2008
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu Feb 7 22:17:10 2008

Last Saturday, we were invited to a party in the small town of  
Bocairent, about 100 km from Alicante, to attend a party celebrating  
the beginning of the town's annual Moros y Cristianos fiesta, the  
biggest event of the year in that small town of about 4500  
inhabitants. The lady in the striped shirt performing a dance with a  
sword is the hostess; the particular group we were with were Moros  
(whether one is a Moro or Cristiano in these fiestas is something  
that is passed on through generations).

The pics are really just party pictures, and I made the gallery  
mainly for the people involved, but thought I might show them to a  
broader audience as well:

http://www.greatpix.eu/gallery/4301077

All taken with the E3, with IS turned on, nominally at ISO 800 but  
given the amount of exposure correction I had to do in Lightroom, I  
was really shooting at ISO 1600. The IS was somewhat useful when  
people were not moving, but overall I think it is suited mostly to  
photographing buildings at night, not people having a good time.

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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