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May 10, '08 11:41 AM
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The normally monochromatic hues of Ayala Avenue were flooded with color last Friday during Makati City's annual Grand Parade - a prelude to their 338th Foundation Day in June. Here's a link to the press release:

http://www.byahilo.com/2008/05/08/makati-city-grand-parade-on-may-9-to-showcase-famous-philippine-festivals/

This showcase of various festivals around the country was billed as "resembling the acclaimed Rio Carnival in Brazil." Though I doubt they even got close to that, as most of the exuberantly ostentatious floats still gave me that hastily-built, haphazard impression (Which is why I won't show you any) and not all the street performers looked like they were really into it.

Nonetheless the best delegates such as Tribu Paghidaet and the Makati Caracol kids did not disappoint.

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Tags: photography, photos, makati, pse, grand parade, parade, dancers, tribu paghidaet, caracol, festival, philippines

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thedancingbastard wrote on May 10

Cones eh? :D

It's a great pic though, but was the part of her routine?

p4ncreas wrote on May 10

There are shades of 80s Madonna in that outfit. No she was just adjusting them because they were starting to sag.

elysseb wrote on May 10

the colors are fantastic!

elysseb wrote on May 10

scarey dude lol

elysseb wrote on May 10

wow! wow! wow!

elysseb wrote on May 10

what settings in your cam did you use for these shots kuya?

elysseb wrote on May 10

i want to comment to everything..but i'm too lazy. hehe.
anyways, really like all the photos kuya. this coming june..train me jud. haha :D
i'll be following you around. i'll make the most out of it since you and primy will be graduating on october. i badly want to learn! ;) you now have a minion. lol

p4ncreas wrote on May 10, edited on May 10

-Tamron 17-50mm: Aperture Priority f2.8 or Program mode when I felt I didn't need the shallow DoF.
-Tamron 70-300mm: Shutter Priority 1/500s to prevent blur at long focal lengths.
Auto ISO was set to a minimum of 400 at all times.

The first 50 shots here were in RAW. I discovered this chewed up the 4 Gb card too quickly so I switched to JPEG. Shots from 78 had +1 exposure compensation set in the camera (maybe that was too much sometimes, but I tend to favor a slight overexposure to underexposure) while the exposures of the rest were edited as necessary.

The batteries on the flash died after the Iloilo guys. I should have brought my second set of AAs.

p4ncreas wrote on May 10, edited on May 10

The guys with ultra-wides were literally sticking them centimeters in front of the dancer's faces, or just shoving them blindly into the dancing mass.

On the opposite end of the scale, there was this one guy with two telephoto-equipped bodies. One was a howitzer perched on top of a monopod:

By cherryparaz, DPP

micheve wrote on May 11

this one's my fave

1stsanctioned wrote on May 11

Ooooh, Great shot :)

1stsanctioned wrote on May 11

I wonder how they would look with Rifles shouldered..hmm...

1stsanctioned wrote on May 11

Looks like a photo from National Geographic, dude. Excellent work :)

chinah wrote on May 11

u wer der? sana u txted me! i was in enterprise all the time! :p

voynich wrote on May 11

Great pics, but all the event-mongering is sad; we try to showcase "culture" when there really is nothing here to back it up.

p4ncreas wrote on May 11

chinah said

sana u txted me!

I don't have your number. Will PM you mine.

p4ncreas wrote on May 11, edited on May 11

voynich said

we try to showcase "culture" when there really is nothing here to back it up.

Too true. I always have that thought at the back of my head when I cover events like this. I tell myself I'm just there to get a good shot published or at least add to my on-the-job experience.

I'm not supposed to be a product photographer at Business Mirror, unlike my work for the Portal. I couldn't care less whether my images help promote the city or not.

p4ncreas wrote on May 11

Reuters, AFP, AP, National Geographic - I frequently look to them for inspiration.

voynich wrote on May 11

NG... I can say our sources for inspiration intersect at that point...

thedancingbastard wrote on May 11

The street must've looked like a total mess afterwards.

The street cleaners have my condolences.

thedancingbastard wrote on May 11

p4ncreas said

No she was just adjusting them because they were starting to sag.

Exactly the same thing Madonna did! :D

1stsanctioned wrote on May 11

voynich said

we try to showcase "culture" when there really is nothing here to back it up.

Agreed there, dude. Beneath, there is nothing here but dancers and costumes.. Fear no great connection to my culture with these...

1stsanctioned wrote on May 11

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