Taken on vacation trips
Buskers make good candid photographic subjects in general. This particular one at Radcliffe Square in Oxford was in the perfect place since the colour of the surrounding walls and environment complimented the warm skin tones of the busker and his blue shirt perfectly. I had to bump up the ISO to 800 to freeze the action as he played on his violin. This created a nice grainy effect which I thought was appropriate for the journalistic mood of the shot.
From our last couple of weeks in the UK before we came home to hot and humid Singapore, taken at Portland Bill…
Summer should soon be in full swing in the UK. With the long weekend holiday ongoing now for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, I can imagine the long line of visitors to the beaches and countryside. The above was taken at a quieter time during our visit to Rhosilli Bay on the Gower Peninsula in February this year. Similar to my earlier post, I have aimed for a wide-picture view with the composition (despite using a fairly long focal length), making the figures of the surfers tiny to reflect the scale of the scene in front of me then.