Welcome to another #throwbackthursday. In these bi-weekly posts, I am revisiting the albums I have within my Lightroom catalogue from my time living in Hong Kong.
One of the great things about Hong Kong is the number of Public Holiday’s there are – around 17 if my memory serves me correctly. Also on these public holidays apart from the office workers and school having a day-off life around the city just goes on as normal. 2nd June 2014, when these images were taken was Tuen Ng or Dragon Boat festival and this provided with the time to have a wander around the streets.
You might be wondering why there are no Dragon Boats in these images if they were taken on at Dragon Boat festival – well by this time I had lived in Hong Kong for approximately 5 years and the thrill on stating on a rugby scrum of drunken expats trying take taken decent images had warn a little thin. Therefore the street of Kowloon had far more thrill for me.
All these images were taken with the original Fujifilm x100, which I’m sure most of you know is fixed lens very retro-looking camera. With its fixed 23mm lens on an APS-C sensor it gives a field of view of the equivalent of 35mm on 35mm, classic set up on a street photographer. And it’s discrete enough that you can pass through the street virtually unnoticed carrying it.
Black and White was the order of the day, as were many of my days shooting in Hong Kong and although the x100 away produced excellent straight out of camera images, especially in Black and White I always shot them in RAW and processed the file using a combination of Adobe Lightroom and Silver Efx from Nik Collection – this way I always have the flexibility of going back to colour if I so decided.
I’m a very minimalist post-processor of images preferring to use presets that I have created as much as possible to create my image – again especially in my work on the Hong Kong streets. Whilst I’m not a purist street photographer, my style falls between street and travel I think, I think the street photographers ethic of don’t alter the image is a good one to work to … most of the time anyway.
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