This was a unique opportunity to see a free exhibition of all visual arts disciplines such as painting, sculpture, photography and multimedia art from established masters and emerging artists. The works displayed included recent artistic works from America and Europe .

Seventy-eight galleries of fourteen countries , exhibited the work of 400 great masters, contemporary artists and young talents, including fresh work of senior students of three Miami art schools.

The Sigma SD14 camera with the Leica Vario Elmar 35-70 f3.5 did not need any help to cope with the available light. All shots were taken hand held a t ISO 800 with no flash and nobody was disturbed , making for a discrete , kind of candid imagery.

TECHNICAL NOTES: The lighting was of mixed color Temperatures and of a rather incomplete or unbalanced Spectral Distribution that was very hard to balance . I found that the Shade setting was the one that best conveyed the Atmosphere of the place. Since there was a dominance of High Tones (Above Middle Gray ) I decided to override the Exposure Meter by +2/3 to compensate the tendency of all meters to downplay High Key scenes to resolve for Middle Gray. The +2/3 compensation raised the Tonal Values back to where they belonged.

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