I have to say, if you spend even an hour at a multicultural event with a good camera and a trigger-happy finger, you're going to have a lot of pictures. A whole lot of pictures. If I average about four pictures per post, with all the pictures I took, I'd have half a year's worth of content from one evening. But showcasing four of them then linking to the album with the rest of them per act seems to be a good working model.
Moving on to a livelier act, we have a pair of performers, I assume they're teenagers or something, dancing with Bangladeshi moves. In contrast to the act before it, which spoke more of beauty in formality and regality, this act really spoke of life, in my eyes. With their ankles jingling, their hands flicking, and their bodies turning about, the dance involved steady, constant motion at a much more allegro pace in relation to the Korean dance's tempered andante. I'm throwing in musical terminology, get at me.
Unfortunately, as a photographer, the constant motion makes shot planning a pleasant headache, and the perfect image is seemingly as elusive as this girl hidden behind her hands. With the quicker movements, one has to rely on faster shutter speed in order to capture the desired image without motion blur. But if forces you to compensate with heightening the ISO, which causes a bit of a grainy effect. (Alas, I forgot I could mess with the aperture as well, but my lens can't go down to f/2 (minimum f/4) or anything close, so I didn't see it as being as much of a factor.)
Alas, hopefully someday I'll see more of this kind of dancing in the future, and get better shots!
Because when the stars align, the settings are right, and you capture that moment perfectly, there's no better feeling in the world. (EDIT: I probably could've cropped out that stray hand in post, but otherwise this is still my favorite shot of the bunch)
Of course, there are more pictures:
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