I took this at the beginning of the year during the
Chinese New Year celebrations in Trafalgar Square. I got there a bit
late and started off at the back of the audience that gathered
for the main stage. The weather was really wet and a lot of people who weren't prepared for the downpour were
driven away, so I slowly made my way towards the front of the audience.
I eventually ended up at the front of the stage, umbrella in one
hand and camera in the other.
This performer was brilliant. It was extremely difficult to see how he managed to change masks so quickly. I've seen a couple of pics online where other performers have been sloppy and are "caught" at the moment where their mask changes, but the transition from one mask to the next on this act were just too smooth and very well hidden, and he was very fast.
I was mostly on shutter priority and burst mode by the evening, taking 3 or 4 shots per press. I bumped up exposure compension by about 1 stop so that I could keep my ISO fairly low, reason being that I only have my Tamron travel lens with a good enough reach and it's not brilliant in low light (I'd also just learned about exposure compensation so this was a bit of a test :D ). I shot in RAW which filled up my cards quickly but helped with retaining details in post-production. My camera also got rained on pretty hard despite me having an umbrella, but it survived the night thanks to my trusty microfibre cloth (pretty lucky for a camera/lens setup that has zero weather sealing).
Some of the other quick change masks he used. I didn't snap them all as I actually wanted to watch him perform:
The man behind the masks.
If you know his name, please let me know :)
