When Light Dances

Model portrait in a narrow environment

Alex Leung — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:00:24 +0000

We all know that a big soft box is always good for studio shooting. For other indoor shooting, the soft box is also very useful if the location is nearly the same size as a studio. That means that the width and depth of the “room” enables us to put the strobe at a distance [...]

Candid photos with a mix of red and blue tones

Alex Leung — Wed, 30 May 2012 02:00:01 +0000

After the last blog, I decided to share more photos taken in the new café. I think it is a coincidence here that the tones in these photos are a mix of red and blue, or warm and cool, so to speak. And I also mean the cool tone coming from the laptop LCD screen. [...]

New product demo: Photography & Cinema Pico Flex Dolly Kit

Alex Leung — Mon, 28 May 2012 01:54:22 +0000

Alex shows you how to use this popular dolly kit to achieve incredible dolly shots! Product link

Using a portrait lens for café photos

Alex Leung — Fri, 25 May 2012 02:00:38 +0000

There is a café that just opened in Hong Kong, and I went out to take some shots there. It is not like most of these places, where the staff and customers are always avoiding cameras. So it was a perfect place for DSLR or iPhone photographers to get their shots. I used the perfect [...]

Achieving better subject-background separation

Alex Leung — Wed, 23 May 2012 02:00:46 +0000

I always talk about how to make the subject shine, or to make the subject stand out against a background. It is common practice to use a portrait or faster lens that can create a shallower depth of field to serve this purpose, or to use artificial light as backlight to separate the subjects from [...]

Unique tips on indoor portraiture in different scenarios

Alex Leung — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:03:32 +0000

Alex finds his inspirations when trying to overcome the circumstances in an indoor photo session. Product link

Take your candid photos like planned photos

Alex Leung — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:00:02 +0000

This title may seem funny, because planned photos are supposedly different from candid photos, in terms of setting and the use/non-use of flashes. In the simplest sense, planned photos are taken with much preparation and the subjects are well prepared too, not to mention the careful calculations in key and fill lighting ratio, white balance [...]

Chains, folding gates, and pallets

Alex Leung — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:00:20 +0000

Shown here are some other photos taken at the fruit market mentioned in the last blog. Although this market is an interesting place in the eyes of photographers, we still need to focus on some of the more prominent subjects. I focused on specific tones here, the rusty red and brown, along with the warm [...]

New product demo : Ciesta Pampas Camera Bag

Alex Leung — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:57:35 +0000

Our presenter Carmen shows you how Ciesta Camera Bag fits in with your photo gear and street fashion. Product link

Fruit market

Alex Leung — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:00:22 +0000

Photographed here is a fruit market in Hong Kong that attracts many photographers looking for candid and street fashion photos (in the reference photo, you can see one of them shooting a beam of afternoon sunlight in a nearby alley). Lorries start arriving here every morning at around 4:00 A.M. to unload the fruit, which [...]