I started thinking about the theme for the Project very early.  I love taking photos of children and capturing their ever changing moods, expressions and ways.  I decided on a children's party theme and luckily enough had the opportunity to take some great photographs for one very gorgeous little girl's birthday. However this quickly changed when I heard the circus was in town!  Eroni's Circus had arrived and I wanted to take my 3.5 year old as she has never been to the circus.  This is a small circus but was very popular.  I realised this would be a great theme for my project and decided to take the camera and family along one Sunday.

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​There were many complexities to this theme I soon came to realise. The first issue was composition.  There were fences in the way, poles in my foreground , the only win was the light which was nice and soft provided by the clouds thanks to lovely Melbourne weather.   Once inside my fears increased.  It was very dark.  I had spoken with Raimond recently about low light photography so I thought ok, perhaps lets use those tips to practice and see if we can get some great shots for the project.  I also needed to be aware of other technical aspects such as  fast movement.  I would need to watch my shutter speeds and ISO very closely here.  Aperture is key to determining depth of field however other factors such as ISO and shutter speed contribute greatly.  I was also concentrating on ccomposition and being aware my options for capturing those perfect moments passing by very quickly if I wasn't ready.  So away I went snapping as many shots as I could, adjusting settings determined by the situations as the presented themselves.  

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