(Ricoh GRD4)I'm very fond of a quotable Chinese quote which goes, in Cantonese, "Kungfu zoi si ngoi". To paraphrase it, it means that a poet perfects his poem writing skills through gaining experiences from outside of poem writing.
The same logic can be said to photography as life experiences and artistic skills learnt from elsewhere can definitely enrich one's photographic results. For today's shot, and the shot of last Saturday, I relied on a tact which bears resemblence to an arrangement conceived for stage plays to work around the space constraint for some particular scenes. Anyone who has watched plays is familiar with this: the props and extras in the background behind a character who is facing the audience are actually meant to be fronting that character in the foreground. This may be used to express the sense of distance in a tele-dialogue scene, or to keep characters from turning to face the background in a fighting scene, so on and so forth.
When I came across this scene, it seemed to me that the road sign symbolised the focus which the lady photographer was working on. So I went up near her and took the shot.
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