People in Mong Kok

Mong Kok is a place full of youngsters, tourists, passer-bys. It’s a place full of people in sum. Lots of things to shoot with. It gets tricky to catch the right timing for the right person. It trains my photographic sense by selecting potential candidates. A very great place for practice if one got guts or simply enjoy by shooting up close.

Mad man who loves Jesus.

Tribal tattoo and tri-color bags
I love the patterns on this photo and the little signature background of this district. Thanks to this man.

Man who loves red.
Fired this at waist level. Turned out outrageously good with all the hanging billboards.

Family man

Let’s talk business

One finding comfort at a back alley

Monk without rules

Fashionable Man & Model Dolls

High ISO in colors with Ricoh GRD IV: The People of Sheung Wan & Central – After work

Another day of my Ricoh GRDMy thought on the high ISO had always directed my attention to black & white. And recently I had been liking street photos in colors. So can we fuse high ISO and colors together with a tiny help of post processing?

Answer is subjective: Yes, Why not!?

ISO 1600

Many of us thought the high ISO causes lost of colors, saturation and more. Yes but the current technology is doing its best with the high noise level in images. It’s still giving us colors at very least.

ISO 3200

Simply adjusting the contrast, hi/mid/lo brightness and sharpening, the photos became some of my keepers even initially were crappy..really crappy when unprocessed. Thanksfully, I did have my customized “My Setting” image filter to pre-process the photos in the camera while shooting.

ISO 3200
I’m very fond of working with high ISO photos even on a compact camera i’m using – Ricoh GRD IV. Black and white would still work great with the digital noise (grainy). I’m more fascinated at the moment with the grainy color photos. It gives a ‘raw’ look and feel. Just like a painter doing a sketch on the go. It’s truly reflecting what this busy city is going on. I’ll continue to carry on in this method in the coming days. Hope you’d enjoy too!

 

Gloomy Construction off the IFC

When there’s not much to shoot, i found some things to be my material. Then I go from there with the Black & White hi-contrast filter.

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