For this exercise I choose my home town of york, mainly because its a popular city with tourists and no matter what the weather is normally pretty busy. To get a feel for the day I first took a walk around the city center to scout out any potential hotspots for shots later and also to kind of gauge how I was going to approach the task.
I started off using a 55-300 lens I choose this because I wanted to get a feel for taking shots with out being to overtly obtrusive. This enable me to stand-back somewhat and get more natural pictures of people without them realising they were being photographed.
Generally in my experience if people see you taking photographs they instantly act different and the naturalness off the situation you were trying to capture is gone, by using this lens to start with you cane remain anonymous whilst still achieving your results.
It didn't take long for me to get into my stride and felt quite at ease, because of the location as well made the task much simpler as I appeared to be just another tourist taking photos.
