Tsim sha Tsui at 0.95 in low light
(The back alleyways on Chunking Mansions, great light always) Note: All shots on the Leica M9 with SLR Magic 50mm 0.95 hyperprime. All processed with VSCO Film Presets in Lightroom 4. Tsim sha Tsui is one of my favourite places to shoot in Hong Kong, you have the diversity of rich and poor all in [...]
Street Photography with Fuji XPro1
NOTE: All images shot on Fuji XPro1 and Fujinon 35mm 1.4 lens with autofocus only. We’ve had our hands on the Fuji XPro1 for about a week now, and starting to get used to it and its nuances. Yesterday myself and a few friends met up in Soho and headed over to Temple Street in Kowloon [...]
Eric Kim Street Photographer – Hong Kong (VIDEO)
Eric Kim was recently in Hong Kong running a street photography workshop in partnership with F8 Photography. After the workshop we had a few days to go around town shooting and on the last night we decided to catch Eric’s thoughts in a short interview to get his opinion on how the workshop went and [...]
EXCLUSIVE: SLR MAGIC 50mm 0.95 on M9/XPro1
(Watch seller – Kowloon – Fuji XPro1, JPEG FINE) UPDATE: I made some comments about the white balance on the Fuji not being so great later in this post – I retract that statement as I had the camera set to VELVIA mode, so the colours are naturally boosted, making skintones much yellower than the [...]
My first thoughts…Fuji XPro1
(35mm lens, ISO 6400, 1/250th F1.4) I have been back in Hong Kong only a day, and I get a phone call from one of my suppliers….the Fuji XPro1 kit is here….come and collect it and take it for a test drive…of course, like the obedient little boy that I am….i quickly agreed and darted [...]
SLR MAGIC 50mm 0.95 Hyperprime (FIRST LOOK)
(First shots wide open in Lan Kwai Fong) Anyone that shoots Leica M cameras may have heard the buzz that is going around currently about this new 50mm lens that is due to come out later in 2012. We were lucky enough to meet Andrew Chan from SLR MAGIC who let us have a play [...]
No Photos allowed…..or are they? (VIDEO)
In recent news here in Hong Kong there has been much controversy about photographers rights to shoot in public places (in particular in front of large branded designer stores, etc). Security guards have been misinformed by their employers about what is ‘public space’ in front of a shop and therefore this has led to confusion, [...]
Street Photography…underground
Something I hear a lot is “I went out shooting and there was nothing to see”, well my honest reply is…..“there is ALWAYS something to shoot”, no matter where you are, there are always things to find of interest, be it people, buildings, landscapes or even subway station markings as was the case in subject for [...]
So Uk – The oldest government housing in Hong Kong
Sunday morning, and myself and good friend and fellow Leica photographer ‘Rocco’ met up for a traditional English breakfast in Soho before deciding where to head out for some street photography on this pleasantly sunny but chilly Sunday morning. We decided to visit ‘So Uk’ in Cheung Sha Wan, reported as the oldest government housing [...]
How we shoot Street Photography in Hong Kong (VIDEO)
A lot of people have been asking us how we get close up pictures of people out on the streets in Hong Kong, so we decided to make a short video to show exactly how we go about getting these images. We attached our little GOPRO video camera to the top of the Leica M9, [...]
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