UK China 400 - Prime Focus

Before going to China, I had only ever travelled to european cities, which weren't to surprising as they were pretty familiar in terms of architecture, people and culture. Shanghai & Fujian in particular were far away in miles and also behavior, food and customs. Being in such a new place was brilliant because my head was always turning towards something I'd never seen before e.g. mass dancing in a park opposite an enormous statue of Mao and snake wine!

A few days before the trip, I bought a new lens for my camera, a 50mm 1.8. A lovely little device, which is great for low light settings. However, when I got to the shop, I found out that the auto-focus function on the lens I wanted wasn't compatible with my camera. So I had to make a decision. Do I travel to China with bog-standard out of the box lens, and when I get back, save up an extra £200 and get the perfect auto-focus lens or just buy the manual focus lens and take it with me. I bought the lens! And it was the best decision I could've made.

Without the opportunity to point and shot, knowing that the picture would come out how I wanted it, I was forced to take more time. Really think about how I wanted the picture to come out. With the process being a lot slower, there were some picture opportunities that were lost. There were wonderful surprises. Here are two of them.

Shanghai Motorcyclist

Shanghai School Girls

Comments

[Bernardine Evaristo]

Great photos, Yem. My Nordic-Baltic tour pics were the opposite. I usually took photos while walking through
streets with long-legged Northern people and so just took the photos quickly hoping there woujld be some decent shots.
But your photos are ARTISTIC!

[Elte]

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[yemisi blake]

Thanks B,
Glad you like them. Im having so much fun with my camera(s) at the moment. i should be coming out with a few word photo projects soon. Will keep you posted.

P.s. I gave a talk at the havant literary festival today 'blogging - the art of success'. i used you as a case study.

Atb,

Yemisi