There are a lot of ways to get creative with street photography. The more you look around for interesting scenes to photograph, the more you realise the power of reflections. They are everywhere. Reflections are another kind of shadow.
In reflections of the buildings we work and live in, hides a wonderful world, a prodigious one, with different laws of physics. Light reflects with inimitable consequences, perspective lines are deforming, typography and color loose there significance and become beautiful shapes and forms, they play a new role within a composition. Although summer in Hong Kong is a rainy season, there is always something interesting to shoot with the rains. Rain is one of the best times to photograph in because it can make all types of surfaces reflective. Just train your eye to notice them at first will eventually make it second nature. 倒影与影子虽然都有 “影” 一字,但两者却有截然不同的面貌,影子可说是本体遮蔽光线后的形象,但倒影则是反射后表现出来的形态,在真实世界里,可说是将3D立体实景,转化为2D平面的魔法。此外,受到光线方向、光源质感,以及反射材质影响,相较实体可说是多了不少趣味。虽然香港的夏天正值雨季,但下雨天也会帶來有趣的拍攝題材。当水面平静时,岸上景物实景与水中倒影一实一虚,遥相辉映,极大提高了整个画面的空间纵深感与视觉冲击力,极具美感。摄影是一门光与影的艺术,水中的倒影则将这一点体现得淋漓尽致。 倒影就如同镜子一样,反映着真实世界,但果真的是如此吗?透过一些构图上的刻意安排,或是后制的处理,都能让呈现出的倒影与真实不同,而从这当中其实可以悟出不少做人处事的道理,利用摄影这项兴趣,进而获得其他启发或收获,真是一举两得。
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In music they say the spaces between the notes are just as important as the notes themselves. Similarly in photography, it can be the spaces that are not in the light that add impact to an image.
Shadows help tell a story and enhance the mood and visual power of a photograph. In fact, they can be so interesting, that they “overshadow” the subject itself. By focusing your attention on the shadows, you can create beautiful compositions full of contrast, form, and minimalist simplicity. An object and its shadow will strengthen each other. Sometimes you might even want to cut the object out entirely, and play with capturing only the interesting shadows that are cast by it. Hong Kong is a lot different to shoot in from Singapore. I like detritus and darkness, shadows and noise, so for me the backstreets and markets of Hong Kong give me the things that I want. Photographing shadows works best with strong, simple shapes that make interesting graphic designs such as flowers, sharp lines, or even human beings. After all, who hasn’t taken a picture of their own shadow as it stretches out across the sidewalk in front of them? 街拍,可以是寻找你眼中“别人故事”的最佳方式之一,而影子和黑白片最配。我特别喜欢用黑白照片去表达自己眼中的“别人”,因为没了色彩的装饰,需要你更认真去表达你的内心,和周遭的一切,所以黑白片常被大家认为是最容易产生故事的方式。 影子有更多的可能性,这就像是打开了摄影世界的另一扇大门。我们都可以通过调整光线类型、角度和明度等,让影子给人物创造立体感。简单来说,影子是另一个可以说话的主体,那些平平无奇的小动作都能拍出感觉,看影子就能脑补出一个故事。 我很喜欢一句话:影子,是你在太阳下的碎片,而把碎片拼凑起来,你会发现影子背后的故事。 I recently travelled to Hong Kong. Yes again. It’s somewhere that I always want to go to every year, the streets, the neons, the vast amount of people. There really aren’t many words that can fully describe the energy of Hong Kong and how that energy transforms from day into night. It’s magical, the sun dips and gives way to a sea of neon signs as they flicker alive. The evening commute begins and a new energy starts pulsing through the very heart of the city. I don’t have a particular project that I am working on with regards to the streets of Hong Kong. I like to walk around to see and learn about the city. I like to get lost and see where I come out. Singapore does not have this attraction for me at the moment, maybe because of familiarity of the setting.
Hong Kong is a highly fast-paced city. Sometimes it is absolutely disorienting. One of the things that you will notice in this blog post is the sense of motion. Because Hong Kong is such a busy city, I feel like I need to convey a sense of motion in some of my images to hint at just how quick the pace of life is in Hong Kong. With street photography, people often think of the typical black and white, static and candid captures that freeze the action. This may be popular, but it’s also great to break the mould and apply some creative uses of slower shutter speeds. After all, street photography is about anticipating and capturing a moment before it’s gone, which often requires the photographer to react within a split second of a moment unfolding in order to grab the moment. Adding a slower shutter speed shutter can help add drama to street photographs, in fact there are many different times when a longer exposure may be beneficial in bringing out the essence of a street moment. 香港是一个繁忙的都市,每天上下班的时间街上总是行人如鲫。如果想营造人来人往的景象,慢速快门是一个简单而神奇的方法。我通过一系列的长曝光摄影拍下的照片,抓住了这个人口众多的大都市真正繁忙的节奏,展现了川流不息的人群和车辆和那快到令人眼花缭乱的速度。每张照片的曝光时间为五秒钟。看上去好像是把现实世界的五秒内发生的事情封装在了一张照片中一样。在这些照片中,似乎可以听到从四面八方的人潮中传来的喧闹的声音。 这张相片给人一种人潮如浪的视觉效果,虽然行人的样子和身影没有给清楚凝固,但人像残影的快速流动,偏偏将街道喧哗繁荣的气氛,形象地表现出来。加上静止的街道背景与人像残影形成强烈、鲜明的对比,无意间便流露出一种静中带动的感觉。 My Hong Kong photo series under pen name 蓝天游 titled《魅惑香港》is published in today's LianheZaobao 联合早报光影版 full coverage dated 3 June 2018! 感谢、感恩! Thrilled to see it being featured nationwide in print! Special thanks to Lianhe Zaobao, you made my day! :)
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