If you’re going to be in Singapore, with all its very big shopping centres, and you’re going to be spending an hour in one of them in advance of a visit to the zoo, what better way to spend it than at the “12th craziest toys sale”.
Having walked through this vast hall of toys of every shape, size, price and quality, I am still not sure if this is the “12th craziest toys sale” because there are eleven crazier ones other places, or because it is the 12th year it has been held, though I presume it is the latter.
Walking around it was a bit like stepping from one pound shop, or possibly one late night shopping TV segment, to another, but this didn’t deter the many visitors that were scuttling between the different stalls.
Wanting to get a photograph of this expanse of toy-fuelled mania, I made my way to a walkway overlooking the space, and steadied my camera on the handrail alongside the walkway to allow me to take a slow shutter exposure, and capture the movement of the shoppers. To get the shutter slow enough, I closed down the aperture until the light levels brought the shutter speed to where I wanted it.
What you hope for with a shot like this is for some of the people not to move at all, and others to move quite a bit, and for the camera to remain steady enough to keep all the toys and other non-living objects in the frame sharp throughout the exposure. Manage that, and you have at the very least a dynamic shot which conveys the motion in ways that a photograph taken with a “normal” shutter speed can’t.
Oh, wow.. That looks so hectic and crazy.
Like a casino almost – Makes you hear the rolling money here