My 2008 Hong Kong vacation pictures... yeah(!)

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 12 May 2009, 10:26

Last year when I was in Hong Kong I occasionally took some pictures.
IF I'll go again this summer, I'll be sure to buy a good quality camera before I start the vacation.

All these pictures were taken on a hiking trail near some dams/waterreservoirs on HK Island.

I'll post some more later...

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 12 May 2009, 11:12

Could you please post some photos with people in them? Scenery shots are nice and all but feel so impersonal and homogeneous. Ta.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 May 2009, 00:08

Yi scanned in his postcard collection. lol

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 13 May 2009, 00:19

EvaUnit02 wrote:Could you please post some photos with people in them? Scenery shots are nice and all but feel so impersonal and homogeneous. Ta.

Wait.... did you just call me a 'homo'!?

You mean pictures with friends, relatives, and myself in them!?
Or just people in general!?

In both cases, I rarely have pictures of that. I don't really like taking pictures of people, or even the people I'm with. First of all it's a hassle, 2nd of all they'll give you a camera-smile, and 3rdly, most of my pictures are just 'scenery' stuff that I wanna capture.

Even if I'd taken pictures of myself and friends/family, I probably wouldnt post them online. I have a hard enough job chasing the horny girls away from my yard as it is.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 May 2009, 11:43

Yi-Long wrote:You mean pictures with friends, relatives, and myself in them!?

I meant this one of course, not just of any random person.

First of all it's a hassle, 2nd of all they'll give you a camera-smile, and 3rdly, most of my pictures are just 'scenery' stuff that I wanna capture.

I see, understandable. But I do agree with Mark that they look like postcards.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 May 2009, 12:23

Great photos but like Eva I like people ones too. Both have their place. I try to take most things I see but that does mean you take a lot more.

There's no reason you need to take just fake ones. Photos where you've catched the moment can look ace. You took a long time to upload these

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HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 13 May 2009, 13:00

Tip: you can pretend to be photographing a landmark, and then just slowly turn the camera down a little bit and snap a pic of a school girl. It works pretty nicely

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 May 2009, 17:56

HungFist wrote:Tip: you can pretend to be photographing a landmark, and then just slowly turn the camera down a little bit and snap a pic of a school girl. It works pretty nicely

Does that not get you arrested in Finland?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 May 2009, 18:08

It dont get me arrested in the UK, never mind Finland

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 13 May 2009, 18:11

Markgway wrote:
HungFist wrote:Tip: you can pretend to be photographing a landmark, and then just slowly turn the camera down a little bit and snap a pic of a school girl. It works pretty nicely

Does that not get you arrested in Finland?

I don't take pictures of Finnish girls

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 May 2009, 18:24

Finnish Boys!!!!!!!!! noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 13 May 2009, 18:27

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 May 2009, 18:35

romerojpg wrote:Finnish Boys!!!!!!!!! noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Don't know what you're laughing at... you just implied that you take pictures of schoolgirls!

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 May 2009, 18:38

Yeah but I dont crack one off over them.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 May 2009, 18:42

Tell that to the Rozzers... lol

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 May 2009, 18:54

Yup they arrest everyone! you can be locked up in prison for it now, even innocent images!

Read this and cry! its insane
http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPa ... age=856968

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 May 2009, 19:07

I'm not at all surprised to read that, madness. Presuming it did has he said he did and didn't get all agro.

I thought legally, when in a public place you have no "immediate" right to privacy.

HungFist wrote:Tip: you can pretend to be photographing a landmark, and then just slowly turn the camera down a little bit and snap a pic of a school girl. It works pretty nicely

I thought you were against taking pictures of strangers or is it just you're against posting them?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 May 2009, 19:11

Yup Madness is the word

and hell Yi I like the images, totally out of my world of things I see, so for that alone they stand out. The 4th one does it for me, the wonderful guy with that hat on

striding along a road with a tiny car thing coming towards him. Blue backpack and blu car thingie, Classy

Is the water in that river green in real life? or reflection from trees?

Did you take many photos?

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 13 May 2009, 19:19

bradavon wrote:
HungFist wrote:Tip: you can pretend to be photographing a landmark, and then just slowly turn the camera down a little bit and snap a pic of a school girl. It works pretty nicely
I thought you were against taking pictures of strangers or is it just you're against posting them?

Against posting when I haven't asked for their permission. I don't mean some random bystanders in a pic, but when I stick the camera into someone's face...

I do value pictures of people far above landscapes. When I went to Japan for the first time and accidentally erased all pics from the first few days I didn't feel bad about losing the landmarks... they're still there, I can go there again. But losing the pics of people who I will never meet again, that was not so nice...

... and nobody believes me when I tell them I was in class trip pic with Japanese students... That was a huge loss

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 May 2009, 22:49

romerojpg wrote:and hell Yi I like the images, totally out of my world of things I see, so for that alone they stand out.

That's not difficult when you've not left the county in over a decade

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HungFist wrote:When I went to Japan for the first time and accidentally erased all pics from the first few days I didn't feel bad about losing the landmarks...

OMG! How did you do that?

Back in 2002 when I arrived back in Bangkok from New Zealand, some wanker taxi driver drove off with my bag in his car (I didn't get a chance to get it out, before he drove off) and taking with it my entire month of New Zealand photos. I was on 35mm back then. I have literally about 12 photos from the entire month, which happened to still be in the film my camera.

Of the 6 months travelling and entire month is missing. All I cared about was the camera film, he could've kept the rest. My mate even put a a notification on the radio taxis listen to. Nothing!

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 May 2009, 22:57

You got the licence plate though, right?

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 14 May 2009, 16:29

bradavon wrote:Back in 2002 when I arrived back in Bangkok from New Zealand, some wanker taxi driver drove off with my bag in his car (I didn't get a chance to get it out, before he drove off)

Well when you threaten to expose yourself to a random taxi driver in a foreign land you can't expect them to respond graciously!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 14 May 2009, 17:39

Markgway wrote:You got the licence plate though, right?

Sadly not, not enough of it anyway. The dick head was gone too quick. I did go to the police but unsurprisingly, nothing. They obviously have better things to deal with. I mainly went, so I'd have less troubles claiming when I got home.

Besides there are hundreds of taxis in Bangkok, it would've been difficult to find the taxi driver again.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 15 May 2009, 18:37

bradavon wrote:
HungFist wrote:When I went to Japan for the first time and accidentally erased all pics from the first few days I didn't feel bad about losing the landmarks...
OMG! How did you do that?

Partly my own fault, partly incredibly stupid camera menu design. The only way to see how much space there is left on the memory card is to click on the memory card icon, which will immediately take you to "format memory card" selection with "ok and "cancel" options and nothing else. I never even noticed the "format memory card" text...