Ghanafest 2009
Ghanafest is a folk music festival held annually, and this year, the organisers were kind enough to have me take a shot at it (no pun intended). When you’re under the stage with relatively static singers, while the 6-or-so cameras of the local TV station keep yelling to get out of the way, its not straight forward to produce something interesting. However, if the organisers wanted something unusual, then I should give it to them. So I slowed down the shutter, loaded the flash and introduced some motion. My view is that when going for motion, it has to be extreme, otherwise it seems like a mistake, apart from not achieving the desired effect. It verges into abstract, but I just love it when you can just about make out what’s going on. Takes some practice, and there’s still a long way ahead, but sometimes, I do get lucky too.
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