P2, P3, P4, P5

Covent Garden

Heading back to Covent Garden I still wanted to try and Capture my initial idea for one of my final five photographs. The busiest area with the most footfall is the central balconies and market area, however I had to rethink how I was going to get my photograph as I wasn’t allowed to use a tripod.

I tried steadying the camera along a hand rail, however as I was still touching the camera it always led to some camera shake.

In these pictures I asked one of the stall vendor’s if I could use one of their stools to rest my camera on. As the stools were along the edge I wasn’t causing an obstruction. But I don’t think I have really captured as much motion blur or the beauty of Covent Garden as I would have liked.

Still intent on getting a good photograph, I continued to walk around Covent Garden. Around the market halls there are smaller walkways with shops. There were benches situated along the walkways. Keeping in mind that I wasn’t allowed to set up a tripod I had the idea of sitting on the bench and setting my tripod on the seat next to me. I didn’t extend the tripod and kept it small. As the camera was quite low from not extending the tripod, it gave a good angle on this next set of photographs. Also being a smaller walk way, the flow of people walking past was more concentrated and therefore I managed to capture a better motion blur.

China Town

Walking through Chinatown I thought that the lanterns would make for a great picture. However as they all independently move I was unable to get a crisp background shot with moving people. It all looks slightly out of focus.

Liberty’s

The Liberty store building has a lot of history and is very different from its surroundings. I wanted to photograph this lovely central London building with traffic and/or people passing not stopping to take in its beauty.
I found a ledge on the opposite side of the road past the pavement to position myself on. This was close to some traffic lights where the traffic often stopped so I decided to find another angle.
I positioned myself in the middle of a side road. The road wasn’t busy and I was extremely careful and considerate of the traffic.