Hi, I am Doug McKinlay and you are watching AdoramaTV. Today we are at the
West Waterford festival of food in Dungarvan in Ireland.
Now I love food not just for the flavors and smells
or the colors and textures, but what it says about a people and their cultures.
But instead of the usual stills or food shots like those you might see in
a magazine, we are going to approach the subject more from a reportage documentary point of view.
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stay focused with Doug McKinlay. Now I'm not a studio photographer by any means.
I'm a reportage, documentary, travel photographer. So when I think about
subjects
I think about telling a story, basically will I get enough images to convey what's
going on around me
And this market festival is perfect. I'll be using a Canon 5D Mk III
and I'm going to start with a 50mm 1.4 lens, giving me lots of
range and dept of field
And I like the feel of the 50mm lens but I will change it throughout the day.
Each situation might demand a whole different lens.
So, it's clouded over
and it's really working in our favor cause the overcast day is now helping the colors
really pop
in our subjects .. it's really good.
So
I'm using a 50mm 1.4 today
for a couple reasons I like that 1.4
aperture, I like that
range of aperture about this lens and plus it's not a really big lens so it's
not very obtrusive, doesn't tend to scare people away.
Makes it easier to talk to
people and also the weather is not great so
I don't wanna change lens and get water in there!
What I'm looking for is some colorful stuff, some
piles of food, that's got texture and color.
Fruit would be great but I haven't seen it yet..
Just spotted it..
So there's lotsa great colors here at the
vegetable crisp stall. These are really, really shallow depth of field a 1.4 to
get that really
nice blur and really pull out that color pull out that texture.
So I'm gonna change the lens
from the 50mm to the 24mm just to give me a little bit
of a wider angle of view. So what this is going to do is
going to allow me to get a little more in the shot.
A little more real estate so to speak, you just gotta be careful of distortion.
Hi there!
What are they? Are they biscuits? Smile.
That's great thank you very much.
Okay
So that was really good.
Very friendly people, the macroons look good. The wide angle lens helped me
collected the information from the front of the table, to the subject, the who's person selling
the stuff and then the background as well.
Oh yea, O yea, O yea...
In the year of Our Lord 2015
Come celebrate the 800 anniversary of Dromana.
Part of this preparation is doing your research, so get online and find out as much as
you can about the events your gonna shoot.
I've chosen the seaweed foraging event behind me as one my subjects.
So the next image I am looking for. is one of the participants
in the seaweed gathering event. To hold some of the seaweed
in their hand so we can see exactly what they've got.
So this gentleman is just holding up some seaweed,
I have no idea what kind it was, but apparently it's edible, so we'll get a nice close picture of it.
We are just trying to find a variety of pictures - close-ups, long shots,
mid range shots.
So we finish for the day and hopefully we have enough
images to tell our story but we won't know definitively until we get back to
the computer,
but I'm confident. I'm Doug McKinlay for AdoramaTV.
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