Yo Yo by jaybutterfield

Yo Yo

Couldn't quiet get this as sharp as I wanted but he was moving fast. This street performer was on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade.
Great find Jay!
January 22nd, 2016  
hard to expose for, great freezing of action at night
January 22nd, 2016  
I guess I'd like to see his feet. But it's not always easy to compose when shooting street. Your shutter speed is slow enough to allow some movement in his diablo(?). I wonder if you could risk a higher ISO without too much noise. The would have let you use either a faster shutter speed or smaller aperture getting the image a bit sharper (although if the former at the expense of the sense of movement, I mentioned.)
January 26th, 2016  
@jasperc I was shooting fast so cut off the feet in this shot - the only one to get open eyes and frozen yoyo. It was pretty dark already and the store lights in the background presented some challenge I couldn't overcome without isolating and lightening the figure in postprocess which would make the foreground artificial. My focus was on getting the action frozen. Thanks for your suggestions) much appreciated.
January 26th, 2016  
Yeah, it's something you have to accept with street photography that you can't have the perfect composition and get "the moment".
January 26th, 2016  
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