*Upwards!*
Canon EOS300 + Lomography Fantome 8
When you’re shooting super shallow, deciding where your focus point is becomes a crucial compositional decision. What you have in the background is also crucially important and can make a difference. Here I tried to capture the verticality of the city in a different way. Let me know if you think it worked!
*Warmth over Quarry Bay*
Fuji GW690iii + Fuji Provia 100F
While a recent discovery, the trails around Braemar Hill have been a fixture of our last six months. The combination of wilderness with the dense city down below is quite unique, and gives you a vantage point on the city that is rather prettier than the city is on the ground. I’m thinking I should go back there at night to do long exposures, but in the meantime, this is a pretty cool view !
*Neon Hotpot*
Fuji X100F
This was an early attempt at neon night photography that I never published. Looking back into it, I quite ilke the photo, especially the way that the light hits the face of the man standing on the left.
*Buddhist Lipstick*
Fuji GW690iii + Kodak Ektar 100
One of the most striking features of all these buddha statues at the 10000 Buddhas Monastery was the red paint on their lips. I kinda like it!
*Meditation Stick*
Fuji GW690iii + Fuji Provia 100F
Shooting with 100 ISO film is constraining. Especially on a sunny day with some shadows, since you always have to arbitrate on your depth of field as well as on what you want to come through exposure wise. This shot was super shallow, but I really like the end result even though my wife would probably say there’s too much blur!
*Fractured Official*
Fuji GW690iii + Kodak Ektar 100
One of the things I love with the GW690 is the amount of detail it renders. The cracks on the paint of this buddhist statue fascinated me, and I love how they were captured in the image.
*Urban Meditation*
Fuji GW690iii + Kodak Ektar 100
Back to some 10000 Buddhas Monastery statue photos, in colour this time. In this one I wanted to capture the proximity between these magical places that from another angle would look so remote and the city (Sha Tin in this instance.)
*Sanctuary*
Holga + JCH400
This is possibly my favourite place in the Hong Kong Catholic Cemetery in Happy Valley. It’s melancholy and beautiful, the tomb framed by those two tree trunks. I love the softness of the Holga in this context.
*Lit Crosses*
Holga + JCH400
Massive light leak on this one, but I think it works really well. Burnt sky plus light leak for the win!
*The Column*
Holga + JCH400
After a ten year long hiatus I’ve given toy photography a new try, and I like the results a lot more than I did ten years ago. Guess I didn’t have the confidence to realise that sharp isn’t an end unto itself. I did a fair few of these shots in the Hong Kong Cemetery in Happy Valley, and I love the mood.
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