Exhibition Project – Abbey Park Fair 17th April 2014

After seeing this video of a time-lapse merry-go-round  and then seeing flyers up for Billy Bates Fair at Abbey Park (Leicester).  I decided to go along and take a few shots for time lapse.  I did phone during the day to make sure that I would be ok to go along in the evening.  They said it was fine, just be careful of photographing children.

I was aiming to get a sort of painting with light long exposure effect, but also capture the  movement of the rides.

When I turned up at about 7:30 I was a bit disappointed at it wasn’t very busy and the rides weren’t running very frequently.  Plus I was a bit self conscious, so to start with I took a few sequences from outside the fair and then moved my way in a bit later on.

I took several sequences that i’m pretty happy with.  The last ride is probably my favourite.  I got the effect that I wanted.  It’s a shame that the fair wasn’t busier so I could have got multiple rides of the same ride in the same sequence.  I.E. Stop-Go-Stop-Go etc.