Excercise 8: A sequence of composition

Finally managed to do this on Chinese New year/Valentines day. I was very nervous about shooting people/strangers in a public place but I hoped that an event such as this would make it easier for me. Unfortunately (there always seems to be an 'unfortunately' part to my posts), I was not really able to move around very much, my position was a long way from the action, and I did not have a long enough lens to see the dragons and lions in very much detail. Also having two little children to look after meant that I could not concentrate on keeping my eye to the viewfinder, but was mostly trying to make sure they did not get lost in the crowd! However, I managed to pivot around the spot, and I did find after trying to shoot wide and telephoto scenes and trying to get as much of the crowd/background in the photo, I preferred to look at more close up scenes, for more interesting shapes/blocks of colour/groups of people.

Excercise 8: A sequence of composition

I told my tutor when I sent him my student profile, that one of things I aspire to, but am absolutely petrified of doing is street photography.  Guess what Excercise 8 is all about!  Well,  I can choose to photograph a landscape, but the initial suggestion is a public event with people.  I was hoping to have a bit longer to psyche myself up to shooting in public, but here it is already. 

So my plan is to actually shoot people in public (might as well push myself), but I will wait until the Chinese new year on 14/2/10 where there will be a parade and hopefully I won't get challenged for taking photos of strangers.  So I will come back to this excercise, and for now continue with the rest of the excercises.