There are two parts to capturing the moment deciding what it should be and capturing it - not necessarily in that order, whilst I can shoot carefully and sparingly until I know I have it, I can also shoot more freely and choose the key frame later in editing. Moments are difficult to predict and reveal themselves only as they happen, or some later, like Cartier Bresson's 'Man Jumping Over Puddle, Paris, Gare Saint Lazare 1932' which involved some luck in addition to fast reflexes.
I plan to shoot images in the Bailgate/Cathedral quarter of the city where there is often something going on and an abundance of tourists taking photo's. I hope to find an image with a tourist maybe, hopefully with an expression of enjoyment.
The images I took were of some tourists talking to the tour guide on a horse drawn carriage tour, I took photo's freely hoping to capture an image of enjoyment with a nice expression on faces.
It was hard to capture an image with both people facing the camera smiling, I waited for a 'moment' which was quite hard, the best I could hope for in this situation was a pleasant exchange between the individuals, looking like they were having a nice time. The added problem was that of the tour guide wearing a hat which made his expression hard to capture.
I settled on this shot as the best of the bunch, the lady is smiling with her head tilted toward the tour guide, it looks like she likes what she hears, the tour guide is obviously talking and using his hand to express what he is saying.
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