[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Geoff,
Wherever we went, any number of locals in the more rural areas,
especially women, wanted their photographs taken with Neela - probably
because Indian dress was exotic to them. That is normal, but it does
not make for exciting street photos. Just posed snapshots for
memories.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting. For what its worth I was recently in Hong Kong for just a few
> days and then about a week in Beijing. In Hong Kong some happy young
> students practised some excellent English and asked me to be photographed
> with them. Possibly like people standing with King Kong or something.
>
> Around Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, we were happy to have our
> photos taken with some lovely senior ladies who approached us with happy
> smiles and wanted souvenirs I guess with the funny looking and very much
> taller Australians.
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
> On 29 October 2014 04:59, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks, I understand that some of you have good luck photographing
>> Chinese in HK and China. China IS HUGE, so there are bound to be more
>> varied reactions, and certainly with the cellphones, lots of people take
>> their own selfies. However, I will like to raise a few points, NONE OF THEM
>> SHOULD STOP you from continuing to do what you are doing before: Chinese
>> are particularly sensitive if you take them in situations where they are in
>> less than stellar situations. For example, Jayanand's trying to take
>> playing mah joh is one of them. That would be showing them as gambling - a
>> vice, even if they do engage in the activities every chance they get and
>> there is nothing illegal per se. Showing people loitering around when they
>> should be working (i.e. if they are in some kind of uniforms) is another.
>> Another big non-no is inside temples. Between 2007 and 2014, the HK temples
>> already changed their policies quite a lot (because of cell phones?) and
>> it's now mostly "it's OK to photograph 'things' just not people."
>>
>> Finally, there may be very subtle body languages that tell you they really
>> hate what you are doing, but that signals might be lost to non-Chinese.
>>
>> Again, keep on photographing, because I will do the same myself, but just
>> trying to give some info.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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