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A productive day of shooting at night. My pants and shoes are caked in mud from the back street markets in Mohammedpur. But the diversity and depth and complexity of lighting was beautiful to see and work with. One situation with metal workers was especially productive (see the previous photo note). Worked from 8pm to 11pm. 290 photos.
- My headphones were being noticed too much so I took them off. Even then, I was anomalous in the crowd and got challenged quite a bit. I realise now that with headphones on I probably miss a lot of requests to stop, and talk. Most of the situations were diffused easily. They really just want their picture taken whilst wresting a little control from me, rather than the street shoot stuff where they have no control. My story about art school also worked very well.
- It again highlighted how important context is. I passed through that market the other day and noticed the complexity and beauty of the lighting straight away. It was a very idea to go back.
- Light levels were really low, so sometimes there was some focusing issues, but nothing too bad. Technically, things were good. There was some good photos that came out of deliberately slowing down the shutter and shaking the camera when exposing. The colours are looking really good with enough contrast and black enhancements in post processing. I’m also doing light dodge and burns to highlight the subject.
- It looks like I’ll be getting near the 2000 photo mark for the night series which is a good base to work from. I’d really like to make a book out of the night stuff which will need 40 to 60 photos I think.
Why tomorrow will be better
- If tomorrow is anything like today that’d be great.
- Start off near the same area in Mohammedpur and see what you can find, the area is very rich. Makes me wonder how many other places I could’ve explored in Dhaka that I won’t get a chance too. Oh well, that’s how this goes I guess.
Posted 2 years ago
