Mutation of Swine Flu

(Just like pig can fly and swine flu can mutate, the iconic Micky Mouse can mutate into a furious rat as well. It almost scared my GX200 out of its lens)

After the frst confirmed case of the swine flu in Hong Kong, a fraction of the locals are wearing surgical masks in the street. Some of the more concerned tourists do the same. There are not a lot of them really. After all, the SARS outbreak happened some five years ago.

People are advised to continue their business and social activities as usual. So people just ate out as usual and I took pictures of usual.

The thing that I wish to share for today is framing. Use some foreground to frame the scene just as if it were the frame to hold the picture itself, says lots of the books on photographic books. As far as my experience goes, foregrounds as frames are more usually found in landscape pictures and streetscape snaps.

But with a little bit mutation, this trick can be applied to like a photo of the "business as usual" life of the locals in a restaurant below.

(Title: A Part of Life as Usual)

Another favorite foreground frame of mine is the rubbish bin! I digged out some photos from the old posts to illustrate this trick, which can be used to add the photographer's opinion in the photos.

R0010893 (Large) (Title: You Are What You Eat)

(Title: Human Activities)

(Title: An Opening for Business)

(Title: The Inner Side)

Comments

ch said…

I like the framing with rubbish bin, must be smelly when you take the shot

5 May 2009 at 16:30

Nevin said…

Yeah, you've got to hold your breath :)

10 May 2009 at 16:49

A Real Hero

(Grip On Reality: This photo was taken on my way to work. I was walking past trucks parking on a cul-de-sac when the ropes caught my attention. The light was right, the colour was right and the criss-crossing pattern was perfect and I held up my GX200. People passing by checked me out and wondered what could be made out of such a boring scene. To me, the fun in photography is that the photographer makes something interesting out of what is not obvious to most at the scene. The ropes tied in knots somehow reminded people I know who are in the grip of the recession) You must have also known a friend or two, or even yourself, being baffled by the spiral downturn of the economy. Bank went bankrupt and the rich was faced with a shrinking wealth. A friend of mine has just had his salary cut by over 10% and some of his colleagues started to be shed. But, wait. Was this done really for the sake of continuing the business? Or is there a factor or greed in it? I wonder whether the

New Low Prices

The window shopping some hours ago has almost provoked my AgIDS illness. Just in case you’re in Hong Kong or are coming here, and have the money to burn (All in HK$/ body only): GX200 = $3,280 GRD2 = $3,380 LX3 = $3,180 G10 = $3,280 Prices are available form a gear shop on the 1st floor of the Mongkok Computer Centre. Besides these new low prices, I found that Wing Shing Photo (55-57Sai Yeung Choi St., MK Tel: 2396 6886/ 91-95 Fa Yuen St., MK Tel: 2396 6885) is offering a Sony A700 + Carl Zeiss Lens package for HK$9,980 (hopefully, a bargain will make it some hundreds cheaper).

Eye Contact

(Leica D-lux 5) The digital era may make it easier to end up with fave shots. Even lousy photos may be turned likable after a few clicks in the post-processing workflow. But if digital advancement or amendments have any bearing on the cultivation of personal style, no photographers will need to discover his or her own photographer’s eye. Undoutedly, this is out of the question. Only with a trained photographer’s eye can we give a thinking gaze and capture an eternal moment, in our unique style. Style is the soul of a great photo. A few posts have been written in GXG to touch on the topic of photographer’s eye. Instead of finding an answer, which would require academic discussions, the posts are intended to give my general reflections and spark interests in moving towards further exploration of the topic. The posts can be viewed after the links: 1) Photographer's Eye: Storytelling 2) Photographer's Eye: Little Show of Observing 3) Photographer's Eye: Sight-Worthy 4

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