Trooping the Colour
Posted: June 18, 2013 Filed under: Events, photography, Portraits | Tags: army, change of scenery, close up, colour, colourful, digital, drama, horses, image, military, outdoors, paintshop, Paintshop Pro, photography, photos, red, soldiers, uniforms 3 Comments
I watched the Trooping of the Colour [celebrating the Queen’s birthday] on TV last saturday and decided to have a go at taking photos ….[ I’m hoping I haven’t breached any copyright laws]. I was quite pleased with the results in spite of having to deal [post-production] with the inevitable reflections on the tv screen. I could be clearly seen holding the camera in some of them so had to discard them.
Another problem I had was unwanted lines and ‘moire’ patterns so I removed them as best I could. As a result sometimes the images weren’t as sharp as I would have liked. Anyway – I tried to compensate what were technical problems by concentrating more on composition and cropping.
I love all the colour and pomp and circumstance too. My dear old Dad was in the TA Royal Artillary in the 1920 s and was with horses and gun carriages like these. I specially like their uniforms – so dashing ….
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Lovely images Eileen!!! Not sure if Trooping was shown here…usually Canada gets to see all special Royal events!!! I am so glad you took photos so I could get an idea of what happened. Thank you xo Sherri-Ellen
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Thanks Sherri-Ellen. I hope the event will carry on with the next generation of Royals after the Queen is no longer around. It probably will, cos I guess it’s a tourist attraction, but a lot of the ceremonies we think have always been, turn out to have been introduced by one of the relatively recent Monarchs. Everything seems to change these days … not always for the good either.
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Tradition is important I beleive..we need traditions to define who we are & what we stand for. I think the Monarchy shall keep the traditions…..they draw tourists & unify the country!!!
Your Father was in the gun & carriage regiment? WOW, very cool!!! Now THAT is history!!
Sherri-Ellen xo
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