After my initial trip to Abbey Park Fair was fairly successful I decided to try again, but on a Saturday night when it might be a bit busier.  Unfortunately for me is wasn’t overly busy and it was a really bright clear evening and as the fair closes at 9pm I was struggling to get any good painting with light type shots.

Although I did get a really good shot of the merry-go-round. This is my favourite from the evening.

I’m going to also hold my hands up and say that I made a real beginners mistake.  I shot everything on light bulb white balance rather than daylight.  So I’ve had to do a lot of correction and a lot of colours look washed out.  The icons look so similar on the back of my camera.

Anyway, confession over.  Here is what I shot:

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.