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Waiting to get an action shot of the rides

Waiting to get an action shot of the rides

From the course: Photo Essay: Coney Island

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Waiting to get an action shot of the rides

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- All right, well because I scouted out this location, I knew that I wanted to get back to a specific ride and photograph, but at the same time, I'm seeing stuff all around me. If that catapult goes up again, I might just try and just do a quick shot and then we'll move on. Let's see how long it takes. Because it's just nice light and it'll be a kind of a graphic shot. I notice the light hitting this catapult ride so I figured I'd wait it out, take a few shots quickly of that, and then move on to get to my final destination. You know the journey is the destination. As I'm walking, I mean even though it's kind of cold, there are not all that many people here, there's still a lot of great opportunities. There's all these interesting characters. There's a lot of color. There's a lot of signs that I think are important so along the way I'm stopping and I'm shooting. You know even when I'm shooting things like signs, for example, I still want to make the best possible picture that I can. I…

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