Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
This, in the end, is the style that I enjoy shooting most. I love to create chaotic images that express the dynamism and intensity of the cities I love most. I keep going back to Hong Kong, over and over and over again for this very reason. Images of Hong Kong are also sell very well, although this one has never sold. It has far too many trademarks and business names (in two languages) to ever be commercially acceptable.
Creating this image required sitting in the middle of Nathan Road (there is an island) with the camera set on a tripod. I used a focal length of about 50 mm (its a 28 to 70 mm f 2.8 lens) with the f-stop set at 16. I then varied the shutter to speed anywhere from 1/60 to 30 seconds depending on the amount of traffic coming at me. I started shooting just prior to dusk and kept on until the last vestiges of light had left the sky. A lot of the success in creating this type of image comes from experimentation and from firing a lot of exposures (film used to cost me a mint back in the day when I used it.)
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