I think it may have been better if you rotated round to your left a little and possibly got down on your belly? But like you say time is something you don't have so easy for me to say hey what about this and did you try that.
My instant thought was jesus that north pier sign is very vibrant then noticed the guys below second. For me personally not as good as the one you posted in BW a year ago but still great stuff. Was this a commission?

BTW two errors I spotted html and " have some shot from" missing an s I think.

YETi: you're quite right, it was a good position - I did try it - but none of the shots I took from that angle worked. Of course, had I stayed in that position I probably would have got a better shot, but I chose to move and ended up with this one instead.

And thanks for the heads-up about the HTML error - I've fixed it now.

Brilliant image, David. The colors are wonderful.

I like this one enormously: it is very alive, and lively, too. :-) . I think the angle suits the straggliness of the corps, and the stand-out grin directly under the centre of the sign is serendipitous....

Very very nice shot Dave! Did you use a filter while shooting this, or is it all PP? I suspect a polarizer, but I could be wrong.

I have been keeping my eye on your photo blog for a while now and I have to say, while all of your shots are great, this one is just FAN-TAS-TIC. I love the colors and the contrast. While positioning the Pierrotters in front of the main sign would have been an obvious composition, what you have here is much stronger and eye catching. By far my favorite of your recent posts.

Amazing shot ! The guy on the right is really good. :) I'm just a very little annoyed by the 2 musicians who are stuck together, better if they were separated. But that's just a small detail in this beautiful and very dynamic picture.

Ruben: this was all done in post; i.e. no filters.

ben: yes, it would have been better had they been separated, but it didn't happen, at least not when I was concentrating :-)

I think this angle works fine - the movement really comes through the shot, the composition might have felt too contrived had it been perfectly aligned. The real win for this is the way every element really pops with vibrancy. Nice work.

I can imagine it being quite frustrating, Dave, not having the control you'd like in a situation like this. I would imagine most of us could relate to that actually.

The positioning of the sign is spot on but - like you say - the clowns don't help things (when did they ever!!??). It's also the sky for me as the clouds on the left, coupled with the performers (ok, I may have been incorrect in labelling them clowns ;)...) drags my eye over to the left involuntarily. So while it's got some great elements going on it doesn't quite grab me and pull me in.

I guess it's a classic case of 'great shot but there is room for some improvement'. Front on would have been too conventional so this is a great alternative given the circumstances.

Freaking great shot! No need to over analyze things, sometimes "you" just like shots. Can't say nothing more, nor less.

A great vibrant shot but I find my eyes starting on the right and moving to the left and hence out of the frame. Rather than my eyes moving from right to left.

Also the sign appears to dominate rather than the figures.

hope this helps

Graham

Its a very funny shot, five identical clowns playing! I would have started with a front shot hopefully to reveal them more. I like the angle and how the North Pier sign shows it just adds to a bizarre shot.

Looks like fun, and the punchy colours fits the image well!

I like the spontaneity of this photograph. It works very well for me.

David, I am curious how you used your flash. Given the shadows, I am assuming that the clowns were facing the sun. I also noticed that you were at ƒ4 and at 1/1000, which is higher than the sync speed. Did you use your flash on camera just to make them pop a bit more?

fun shot :)

Beautiful scene and very nice colors. Bravo!

Thanks all.

Kevin: yes, my flash was on the camera, set to high-speed sync mode.

I kind of agree, being a stickler for symmetry if it had been shot with the sign from a low angle, with the five baroque looking Pierrot's staring down in black and white, or hue shifted in a setup pose, it may have worked but equally this image with its play on thirds and saturation works as well..... its a conundrum.....csj

I like the composition.A line through the roof of the pier and the performers, reaches a vanishing point on a third down the left side . My eye goes from the guy with the guitar, left along the line and follows the roof back, picking up detail about the pier to the sign.The "North Pier" sign is on another third. The radiating green architectural feature of the glass roof "point" down to the sign and performers. The sky to the top left, gives valuable context to an outside shot of a seaside town and balances, the empty, contrastingly darker lower left.

Simply amazing! I love the color work here. Looks like its desaturated in part and saturated in others. The composition and content are perfect. Well done.

I think this sot is absolutely amazing. The clowns make it for me.

Well, this was a lucky shot. Why can't I bump into great shots like this. Wonderful !

Ah, Jazz a la Rod Serling. Very, very, very cool. And cool is is not easy with an accordion.