Wide angle helps enhance spatial qualities, the two street signs symbollically represent the intersection of the two streets.
Zoom
The basket’s dirt and scars are distinctly shown, these are the marks of time and hard work.
Focus
The moist inside the plastic cover as well as the texture of the plactic cover are vividly presented under the lamps.
Crop
Peeping through the little hole as if watching some secret transactions, this angle offers a sense of danger and privacy.
Bird’s Eye
Just as the passerbys, fishes also have a red umbrella on rainy days.
Worm’s Eye
By emphasising the lunch boxes, it reminds us of the time, it’s time for store owners to go home for dinner as the goods were almost sold out.
First Person View
As a visitor of the market, I was drawn to the vibrancy of the market, people were all over the place, each has a different purpose in the market. However, the colours of the community are fading in my opinion. When I was small, my mother used to bring me to the wet market and the store owners always chatted with me, they even treated me sweets sometimes. These interactions in the market is becoming less. People have little affiliation with or emotional attachment to the market as compared to the old days. It is sad to see that the role of the market as a community place is vanishing. But, to many of the Hong Kong people, wet market still bears an unspeakable significance in their hearts, this unspeakable significance is understandable among Hong Kong people.
Skewed Angle
Seeing from the reflection, the store is put in the limelight, it is very appealing to me.
Perspective
By taking the two point perspective into the composition, it enhances the floor space, giving an illusion that the indoor market has a high ceiling.
View Frame
The entrance of the residential building is framed by the objects of the stores e.g. plastic bags, Chinese sausages and other equipments. This door frame is unique.
Seriality
Capturing a scene that a foreign lady stopped and looked into the unattended black alley.
Chiaroscuro/ Contrast
Taking a photo of the indoor market’s ceiling from a low angle, the contrast between light and dark magnifies its beauty of simplicity.
1 thought on “Fieldtrip 1: Wan Chai Market”
Natalie Khoo says:
You have a fascinating set of photos from the market, especially the Crop and Skewed Angle Shot. They capture a perspective that is less normative to the human eye, which makes the viewer reflect more about their position and the message of the photo. I enjoyed reading about your personal experience in the First Person View and the photo has also successfully conveyed the nostalgia through the grayscale and the blurred motion of passersbys. You have a good sense of finding something interesting in an unexpected position, but other than the visual aesthetics, you may start developing a stronger narrative as you move towards filming.
You have a fascinating set of photos from the market, especially the Crop and Skewed Angle Shot. They capture a perspective that is less normative to the human eye, which makes the viewer reflect more about their position and the message of the photo. I enjoyed reading about your personal experience in the First Person View and the photo has also successfully conveyed the nostalgia through the grayscale and the blurred motion of passersbys. You have a good sense of finding something interesting in an unexpected position, but other than the visual aesthetics, you may start developing a stronger narrative as you move towards filming.