Shot with a Canon EOS 50D (w/ 17-55 F2.8 IS USM lens)

• Shot on Aperture priority
• Focal Length: 40mm
• Aperture: f2.8
• Exposure: 1/13s
• ISO 1000

One of the hardest things I find in street photography is finding a subject to stay still for long enough to expose well (without disturbing them). A photographer in the dark is therefore an ideal subject because they are doing their best to be as still as possible to take their own photo.

My brother is spending all the time we’re on holiday taking photos with his new Sony hybrid camera, so he’s become a favourite subject of mine over the past week. Here he was taking a brilliant picture of the French equivalent of the London Eye so I took a couple of slightly longer exposures of him to allow the people walking past him to blur into insignificance. I would have loved to take slightly longer exposures, but I was shooting handheld, standing up in sub-zero temperatures without gloves – anything longer than 1/13 sec and I would not have managed a shake-free shot.

(#35 of 366 X 2012 project)