Introduction to photography

攝影，是什麼一回事？PHOTOGRAPHY IS ALL ABOUT?

攝影由「光」與「描繪」兩詞結合而成，攝影，靠光，攝影，是用心的創作，機械人可能會攝影，但就絕不會體驗到按快門的瞬間那種內心顫動。

試著用眼，還用心去拍去感受，我發現攝影的境界，原來很大很大。攝影，是自己跟自己的對話。攝影，是故事的訴說。一樣的相機，一樣的鏡頭，卻因為心境不同，拍下的照片情感也有所不同。攝影，是減法：想好要表現的東西，再把不需要的從構圖減去。攝影，不在於你找到一個好地方，而是在於你看見一片好風景。

就當每一張，都是人生最後一張，認真拍，用心拍。愛拍，不等如要亂拍，對相機，要有一份尊重。攝影，可以隨心，但不隨便。

Photography by the “light” and “paint” a combina-tion of two words, photography, by the light, pho-tography is the heart of creation, a robot might be photography, but will never experience the kind of heart at the moment of shutter vibration.

Try the eye, but also hard to shoot to feel, I found the realm of photography, the original very big. Photog-raphy is themselves with their own dialogue. Photog-raphy, the story telling. The same camera, same lens, but because of the different state of mind, emotional photographs taken are different. Photography is a sub-traction: want to show something good, then do not sub-tract from the composition. Photography, not that you fi nd a good place, but rather you see a good picture.

On when each one, all life, the last one, seriously beat, heart beat. Love fi lm, mean to pat on the camera, there must be a respect. Photography can be heart, but not easily.

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在尋找的過程中，上網看看評論、到店舖裡試試手感等，整個過程確實充滿期待，愈是期待愈是美麗的過程。尋找，讓自己更了解自己，更明白我需要什麼，去補助自己在攝影上的不足。

In the search process, the Internet to see comments, try to shop other hand, the whole process is full of expectations, the more beautiful the more looking forward to the process. Find, to make you under-stand themselves better understand what I need to supplement their defi ciencies in photography.

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CAMERA , THAT ONE IS RIGHT FOR ME?相機，那一部適合我？

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CONTENT

Landscape PhotographyPortraiture PhotographyS t i l l L i f e PhotographyRe s e a r c h ProjectB/W print Final Project

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Landscape PhotographyVisualizing Spaces, Architecture photographyThe Location - Shek Kip Mei Estae CANON EOS 5D MARK II are used (with 24-105 LENS)

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Landscape PhotographyVisualizing Spaces, Architecture photographyThe Location - Shek Kip Mei Estae CANON EOS 5D MARK II are used (with 24-105 LENS)

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Shek Kip Mei EstateSocial/Historical/Cultural

Shek Kip Mei Estate is a housing estate in HK. It is a primary type of architecture for public in

HK. The estate has withnessed the progress of estateʼs development of HK.

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Shek Kip Mei EstateSocial/Historical/Cultural

The popular cultural of Shek Kip Mei Estate is the style of sun-baked to the clothes, it is seldom

showed in Hong Kong.

I found that he has captured the moments that have a quiet emotion, also he is keen on patterns and shapes, light and shadow. In fact, he can take photos of a concrete of a city anf make a cold and lonely feeling.

ReferenceLandscape

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Paul Politis

A self-taught photographer from Montreal, Quebcc.Living in Ottawa. Making photo-graphs since 1988, first in the traditional chemical darkroom, and since 2005, digit-ally. Since 2001, currently represented by La Petite Mort Gally in Ottawa.

Photography

Portraiture PhotographyWhat is “friends” this word to me? The Location - The University of Hong KongCANON EOS 5D MARK II are used (with 24-105 LENS)

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Hellen Van MeeneShe is mainly concerned with things such as the lightfall on a white skin, bruises on an arm, hands which disfigure in water, and starting goose-pimples in frosty weather. It is often a ba-sic idea or tiny observation that gives me a han-dle on the situation and something to aim for.

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Still Life PhotographyFlower for ShotProtea King, fl ower from AfricaCANON EOS 5D MARK II are usedwith Canon EF 100mm Macro Lens

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Don WorthHe is dedicated to music and interest in hor-ticulture. He designed and maintains a large subtropical garden at his home near San Francisco. Also he uses plants as their sub-ject matter. A large format camera, have an incisive clarity and quiet meditative mood. In his photos involve enormous spaces, and often use the transformative power of fog, mist and other atmospheric conditions.

Research Projectresearch on the Cultural and Historical aspectThe Location - Chung Uk TsuenCANON PowerShot S95 are used

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The history of Chung Uk Tsuen. Chung clan's village, previous generations be-fore the Ming Dynasty from the Jiangxi pass the Dong-guan to Tuen Mun, has four hundred years of history. Formerly known as Kwong Tin Wai now is Chung Uk Tsuen, "Wai"means liv-ing in the walled village surrounded by the scope for protection purposes

Chung Uk Tsuen in the north of Tuen Mun.

The production of Chung Uk Tsuen, for the early time, agriculture is the main, be-cause it has large tracts of farmland under Hung Shui Hang to grow rice-based, also there are poultry (such as: chicken, pork, beef). For the present: self-suffi -cient, grow their own fruits and vegetables for con-sumption, the mountains to fi ght wild boar, alsothey sell their own crop in the market of Hung Shui Bridge

About the ancestral grave, good location, southward, blue dragon and white tiger are on the left and right.

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For the 70s-90s: corru-gated roofi ng is used. And 90s-present: squared cor-rugated roofi ng is used. On the another hand, some of them even got doubled lay-ers of roof - can prevent rain and spread the heat/cooler the house at the same time.

About the living spaces, the fi rst part is roof. For the 50s-70s: the shape was resembled a Chinese Char-acter‘金’ (it means equal sided triangular shape, highest at the center, ease to drain rain water.

Two materials are usually used: Asphalt/Asbes-to. However, Asphalt, prevent leakage of rain into the house, diffi cult to spread the heat and cool the house. Also, Asbestos, insulate heat, yet may cause serious health problems, such as Cancer.

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The building house materials, in the 50-70s: fi rst used wood to constructed, then used bricks as the body.

In the 70s: metal as materials, the wall bodies were built by many squared-shaped metal pieces.

Nowadays, people use the mixed soil materials to build their house.

Building house materials

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Height of the housesIn the earliest patch of houses built: 6 feets, though villagers own the land, they got the right to build house by themselves, their houses are restricted to certain height.Nowadays, the height of house is13 feets as the standard height, it is about 3 decks tall.

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This is a small store, ran by villag-ers. However, they had moved away for a long time.Villagers are moving out from the village, many houses were emptied but as the land there is owned by families, no one can demolish the houses or renovate them.

While many non-Chungʼs families are moving in. They either live in the house rented from Chungʼs families or live in the small village at the back of Chung Uk Village, called Wo Ping San Tsuen.

Todayʼs Chung Uk Tsuen

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Chung Uk Tsuenʼs lifeThis village are fully utilize resource and space, the villagers grow variety of plant and fl ower, theu can self-suffi ciency. Also they can enjoy nature, create beauty, they develop hob-bits with nature, growing and hunting. On the other hand, theu will hand make furniture, clothes.

B/W Printresearch on the observation

The Location - Chung Uk TsuenCANON 1N Film Camera are used (with 24-105 LENS)

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The Location - Chung Uk TsuenCANON 1N Film Camera are used (with 24-105 LENS)ILFORD FP4 PLUS 125 B&W film are usedILFORD MG4 DELUXE RC 8X10 Paper are used

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The Location - Chung Uk TsuenCANON 1N Film Camera are used (with 24-105 LENS)ILFORD FP4 PLUS 125 B&W film are usedILFORD MG4 DELUXE RC 8X10 Paper are used

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Artist Statement

I am living in Kowloon, so for me Tuen Mun is a strange place, I only know that Tuen Mun have a rich historical background in the books, also in the daily life of people living in Tuen Mun do not always to go to other places, be-cause Tuen Mun is everything in the town of a material life.

When I fi rst stepped into Chung Uk Tsuen, there is the feel-ing of disappointment, because of it is very different be-tween my thought, Chung Uk Tsuen now retain only a small amount of old buildings, many of them are new houses, I think that this place loss of old, traditional atmosphere

Go to Chung Uk Tsuen in several times, I ever feel con-fused, later I donʼt worry too much, directly according to my own sense of Chung Uk Tsuen, from the photos show the light / dark, which is what I feel Chung Uk casual environment, such as from the heart of the city, feeling fresh and pure. However, this place also gives me the dark, cold feeling, in the village a very small amount of people, I feel very alone. Also houses have closed the door and windows, the meaning of strong self-protection, made me even harder into this place.

Final Projectresearch on the Aesthetics aspectThe Location - Chung Uk TsuenCANON EOS 5D MARK II are used (with 24-105 LENS)

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I have to admitted that i have learnt the most from the docu-mentary project. I dicovered more and more about HK, the people, the places. HK is a small but warm place. There are still a lot of things we neeed to appre-ciate. In this course, my skills has also improved gradually. But I donʼt this is the most important. What I saw and feel is much more precious and all of these memories, I had kept them in photos.

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