Artscape’s Big Crowd

Baltimore’s Artscape is the largest free public arts festival in America. Each year, musicians, dancers, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, street performers and everyone in between gather for three days of festival revelry. Since I will soon depart for Hawaii, I utilized the opportunity to practice with my new zoom lens. Here’s one practice shot.

These are audience members for Artscape’s Wells Fargo Main Stage milling about between performances by Southern Culture on the Skids and G Love & Special Sauce. Much like Virginia’s Wolf Trap performing arts venue, a large portion of the audience reclines on a sloped grassy area in front of the stage. The Wells Fargo Stage features a horseshoe-shaped hill such that the only way to capture the shot from this angle is to be all the way on the other side of the hill. That said, I like both the sense of scale and level of detail the lens provides.