The Fair

[Jonny]

As the local fair is in town at the moment i took the chance to have a go at some night time shots.
I was a little dissapointed with most of them as the all seem to be a bit out of focus, i was really struggling with this. I was wondering whether it was camera shake due to the mirror flipping up, all shots were taken at about f8 for 0.5 secs. Would i be better to install the hacked firmware for my rebel to enable mirrror lock up?

A couple of the better shots are below and i would love your comments.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.speed/Forums%20Pictures/Fair1.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.speed/Forums%20Pictures/Fair2.jpg[/img]

[c0ntr0lz]

i like the 2nd one
i just may have to go to our fair and see what i can produce.

[ssim]

Out of the two I would choose the second one. The streaking light in the bottom left side adds a dimension to it that is pleasing to me. Having looked closely at the top I find it just a bit on the soft side. Good work as night photography is not the easiest thing to get great results.

[washins]

The second one gets my vote too, the first one doesn't say a whole lot, but that is a big azzed ferris wheel!

While we're on the subject...I didn't get a chance to shoot the county fair this year, but here are a couple of 2003 offerings, shot about and hour before and after dusk on a Friday night. Comments are certainly welcome.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/washins/FAIRGIRLS.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/washins/082103_Dusk2_VERTICAL.jpg

Thanks guys,

Scott