@jordicohen. Pamplona.

Gora San Fermin!

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It happens every year in Pamplona and 4 years ago I began to  take pictures there. It is without doubt one of the great global concentrations Party (comparable to the Rio Carnival and Oktoberfest in Munich). More than 1 million people were given appointment for a week in a city of just 200,000. It all starts on July 6 at 12 noon with the famous Txupinazo. From that moment it sparks a kind of fit of collective madness and  it begins the general chaos and collective binge will last until July 14 the same.

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This photograph was taken one hour later than txupinazo began. The temperature had already risen  and the alcohol levels was raging in the streets. Many peole are placed under the balconies in search of a refreshing shower, which is supplied by the residents of the place from their balconies. I lingered a while to shoot the picture, the truth is that in these years I’ve done a lot of shots and little to convince me, possibly because the Capa Principle and my obsession with being very close to the subject. I went with my 16-35mm, a fact that made some photographers were complaining that I get too close and sometimes they gourd (some even told me “buy a Tele!”). Apart from the principal boy of the photo, I noticed the background, with a wig style Jakson Five. ”

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Technical considerations may have been others, there is much water and it goes very fast, always shooting with aperture priority, but for the curious and nurse about these things, the picture was taken in raw with a Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II, ISO 500, f 5.6 speed 1 / 2500, flash and 35mm focal length. He was subsequently processed with Photoshop.

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To see more photos of San Fermín: 6 de julio.

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