Events - Tewkesbury Mop Fair Evaluation

Back in October, one of our event photoshoots we travelled to Tewkesbury Mop Fair for the evening to photograph the fairground rides, families and fun. As part of our assignment we had to have 4 final images from the this event and below are the ones I chose;

We arrived at the fair around 4 in the afternoon and photographing the bright lights at this time was very difficult, this image was taken stood holding the camera using a small exposure of F/5.6 to let in as much light as possible and the colours from the balloons on the ride. I like this image because you've got the colours of the balloons and the lights of the ride, but also the children riding it and the parents stood watching over. 

This image was taken stood just outside the waltzer ride as it was starting, the lad you can see on the right hand side was one the boys running the ride and was pushing the seats round so they spin faster. I really like how this image is a snapshot of the ride, with the seats and lights all snapped in actions. Taken using an exposure of f/5.6 and shutter speed of 1/15th second.

This image was taken stood in the queue for this ride, just as it was about to pass over our heads, because I knew I wanted to take a quick snap shot of the ride passing over I used the flash. The use of this has also light up the shoes and faces of some of the people on the ride, and illuminating the parts of the ride that the normal lights wouldn't. I like this image because you can see the lights in the middle of the smoke and how the shoes are light but still blurry because they're moving on the ride and excited about it. Taken using exposure of F/8 and shutter speed of 1/50th second.

This is my favourite image out of all 4 of them, and it was actually taken whist on the ride. I like this image the most because even though its very smoky, it shows the young boy working on the ride spinning the seats around, all the motion blur in the lights in the seats showing which way there moving but then the lights through the smoke from the other rides at the fair too. I feel like this image really summed up what the Fair is about in this generation. Taken using exposure F/8 and shutter speed of 1/20th second, using ISO 800 because of how dark it was.