[Leica] Hong Kong & Shanghai

[Geoff Hopkinson]

Hi Jayanand I was just making a general remark after Richard's interesting
comments. Depending on your style, I think that it is possible to make
worthwhile travel photos with people that you have met and shared a little
conversation with of course and those need not be snapshots. Engaging a
little rather and making portraits rather than shooting candids. One happy
man just approached me when we were strolling simply to smile and offer me
a high five! We crossed paths again at a restaurant at lunch and he came
over with a smile and firm handshake just to say hello to a visitor. No, he
wasn't trying to sell me anything!


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman

On 29 October 2014 13:03, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> >> // http://facebook.com/richardmanphoto
> >> // https://www.facebook.com/Transformations.CosplayPortraits
> >>
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