Brass Band in Mardi Gras Parade
by Ray Devlin
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Brass Band in Mardi Gras Parade
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Ray Devlin
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I actually wrote an article about this type of photograph. It is an image looking ‘right down the throat’ of a high school marching band musician in a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.
What I like about these shots, unlike many other types of Mardi Gras images, is that this shot was taken almost from within the parade itself. I maybe had half a foot over the line on the street, and pointed the camera back down the line of performers. Using a 300 mm lens, this generates a style of photograph with a very compressed scene, and is also intended to be representative of being right in among the action, rather than observing from the side of the street. For me personally, it reminds me of what it was like to be at a Mardi Gras, rather than just be a shot celebrating Mardi Gras imagery.
Although the trumpet actually dominates this image, with very little focus on the musician itself, I don’t believe that this necessarily detracts from the image to any ‘damaging’ extent. For those that have experienced these marching band parades, the proportions of the props and performers always seem to be a little out of synch - – be the ill fitting uniforms, or the mis-timed dancing steps. It is probably what makes these shows so popular – they are imperfect with one facet of the marching band imagery often dominating over the others.
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October 5th, 2012
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