Poetry inspiration

Allpoetry.com uses my image for poetry inspiration, it is good to know that people think that my image can provoke story because this is what I'm trying to do. Link 

My new location

Now my workplace is at the Sheung Wan district and I think it is such a beautiful place which impacts a lot to my photography.

I took it after my first day of work, new life, new journey, new job, new photography…

Sunset

The sky was the best I had seen in last 3 months.

A trip to Nam Sang Wai 南生圍

We (Me and my girlfriend Grace) went to the nature during the weekend and we picked a place called Nam Sang Wai, which is at the Yuen Long area. To get there, first we took MTR to the Yuen Long station and then the Minibus 611 to the pier and finally the boat. Since it took us more than an hour to travel, we had a lot of expectation about this place.

The colour from the food market place in Hong Kong

Shot at Raw, unadjusted with standard Fuji profile with Lightroom 5.4.

Shek Kip Mei

Untitled at Sham Shui Po

My Flickr friend commented it as disorganized organization and I think it fit this image very well.

Tough work

At the intersection

Shot with 3 Stops ND filter

Breakthrough

I have stay in the same loop for such a long period time, and this shot gives me a feeling of a breakthrough. The use of layers( subject and also the crowd from behind), background(the advertisement  from the left and right) and the subject all works together like I have never seen anything like this from my work. I have raised my bar this time, wish that I can sustain it in the future.

Valentine

I care make up no more, all I love is what inside you and how I can make you feel loved.

Team work

They are the Hon's family. They have a lovely child Tung Tung and she wants to help out her dad Kelvin EVERY TIME when he is holding some bigger stuff. With Eva, Tung Tung's mother on the right altogether , I feel that they are such a lovely team and family.

By the way, the reason why I got this shot was we were heading to dinner together.

Movie Movies

I shot it at the lobby of the cinema. I think it is interesting and I wish I can do something similar with my photography in the future. At home, exhibition, anywhere, I'm not sure, I just like this setting.

Cage

It is close to 3 years works in the environment without satisfaction, I feel defeated and starting to hate my job, which is a dangerous because my mental is taking hit everyday. As a designer, I feel I losing my passion to create and I think now is the time to look for a new challenge. I talked to Grace, my girlfriend and she has had 100% support to my decision, it is one of the most important thing to me because she analysis all of my reasons and conclude that I'm not doing anything stupid.

For this image, I captured it at the floor of my Grandma's place, I really felt that the environment was like a cage to me, which reflects to where I'm at the moment. I can't see the full view of the outside world because my view is limited by the cage. I want to find a way out and see the other side of the world.

Good or over processing?

I like this shot, that's for sure, but it only works when I post process it pretty hard. I think the reason is caused by the mixed light condition (Light boxes mixed with the ceiling light). I adjust the slider in the lightroom a lot more than I used to. At the end, the image turns out strong , but I think I may overcook it. I'm really not sure about it this time…

Sky from the Chinese New Year day

I shot it on the way to my Grandma's place. In Hong Kong, since it is so compact, you always have a hard time to find the big trees in the city area because tree takes too much space and it is even harder to find the silhouette stems when you look up to the sky like this image. You mostly see tree stems blend along with buildings with no sky.

Wonderful light and geometric shape

I don't think you can see me post this kind of shot often ^^. I just love it

City of Contrast

I will do a photo essay about the "City of Contrast" As I always says, Hong Kong is a compact city with such a busy environment. From my point of view, people want to find personal spaces to give them a breathing room. To show the emotion through the personal spaces, I use the chaotic lights from the gap between, buildings, signs, bars to create space for the subject.

Update: 24/ Jan, 2013

For the on going project "City on Contrast" I started with Black and White, after a while, I found some success  of using colour and feel that it is stronger than the Black and White for this series. Now I will make this as a colour project.

Here are the colour images

I always want to have more colour works and this series is the chance for me to do it. I'm really excited to see how it end up!

Crowded

I always wanted to make a shot which shows many faces in one go, but it was hard because the composition will went off and became messy, but not this time. I like this image because it shows the busyness of Hong Kong and also shows the individualism as well. Every faces on the images show no connection with each other which is symbolic to Hong Kong life: rush, no personal space and self protection.

Go close

"If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough." Robert Capa, it is one of the most famous quote about street photography and also it the hardest one to execute because you need to conquer the fear when you shoot the unknown person in such a close distance. It takes me a year to overcome the fear and now I can shoot close with a wide angle lens (28mm field of view in 35mm format) if I needed to. You may ask what do you mean of "needed to", my answer is it is all about the impact. If I can create a strong and impactful image by getting close to the subject, I would try to do it (I will not force it). Shooting close up is only one kind shooting style and it works in some situation especially the subject with unique character.