Shown here are some other photos taken at the fruit market mentioned in the last blog. Although this market is an interesting place in the eyes of photographers, we still need to focus on some of the more prominent subjects.
I focused on specific tones here, the rusty red and brown, along with the warm sunlight. It is eye-catching, but it is not enough. Somehow, you need to mark your focus on specific areas to draw viewers’ attention, as I did in Photo 1. In other cases, when I was taking a wide shot, I bothered less with the focus.
Most often, I will mark the focus on the farthest subject within the frame, as I did in Photos 2 and 3. As for Photo 4, as you can see, the focus is on the man pulling the pallet. The interesting thing is, there was a kid running across the alley when I was shooting (you can see her hair flying at the edge of the photo). I wonder if the photo would’ve looked better or more interesting if I had pressed the release button faster.
Photographed here is a fruit market in Hong Kong that attracts many photographers looking for candid and street fashion photos (in the reference photo, you can see one of them shooting a beam of afternoon sunlight in a nearby alley). Lorries start arriving here every morning at around 4:00 A.M. to unload the fruit, which is then transferred to different markets in the city by local workers. This wholesale market is spectacular, since there are many alleys that allow beams of sunlight to come through, creating amazing scenes like these photos shown here.
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Featured here is the eye-catching neck strap series, TREERING. The one shown here is the Greenfield strap, worn by this pretty lady, Beenolyi. I spent the whole afternoon with her taking indoor portraits until I noticed the sun had come out suddenly. So I caught up with the dazzling natural light and came up with the photos shown here. I positioned her like this to capture the beauty of the warm back light that lit up her curly hair. And as you can see, I have deliberately placed her against a background that shows the naturally lit pillars, which adds interest to the photo. I wonder if you noticed that I also used a reflector to provide fill light to her face, without which the photo wouldn’t show the details of her face. I also shot Photo 2 using the reflector.
For Photo 3, I only used ambient light and let her face overexpose a bit to show you how refreshing the afternoon sunlight was.
Alex worked with her favorite model Oscar and shows you how to make the best use of ambient light combined with the optimal use of one flash for outdoor portraiture.
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