Everytime I see your travel photos, there will certainly be filled with candid shots of people.... which I can never bring myself to shoot. Haiz.. wonder when will I break free from this inhibition.
travel with your photographer friends (most of them are more open than normal friends to being shot at, and some of them are too engrossed in shooting to know that they are being shot), shot them as a start.
some of my fav shots (may not be those that others like) comes with multi-subject interaction (as below) rather than a single subject. becos they tend to get distracted by each other, maximising the "candid" effect. a one to one person shot needs to be fast, becos people tend to get tight if you take a little longer, and then they start posing or they stone.
Interesting title with #16 Ju-on.. the boy looks confused rather than creepy though...
he is looking at the ghost festival procession in the far distance, with a blank face (not really confused).
As for this shot, would like to find out if this was the natural lighting and what time of the day was it.
taken closed to 4pm. underexposed at EV-0.7. i dodged the foreground people to give some more colors other than the bright yellow already present on the banners which has good low light thrown on it.
Btw.. it is a korean surname as well chinese (though very rare).. have been mistaken as one too... (by Koreans!!) perhaps I do have roots there.. :think:
Are you? Eh.. or have I asked that question before..
becos it is a northern surname, hence adopted by koreans closer to northeastern china proper (liaoning and hebei). but koreans and chinese with the same surname do not share any blood at all. they are related to the manchurians, with ancient names without surnames. chinese-like surnames are adopted at a later time.
my ethnic ancestry should be hakka (judging by traditional practices of my grandparents) which at some point of time was assimilated into hokkien. the latter is a southern race, likely to be viet-like races assimilated by the chinese, whereas hakka is sort of more mysterious, believed to have moved southward from further north.
i tend to be mistaken as a japanese when overseas becos i have the habit of leaving my beard and moustache on, and my eyes is quite slit like, especially when i smile.