Night photography poses a challenge for any photographer.
Even with a digital camera, you’ll need a wide aperture, longer exposures, perhaps a tripod, or image stabilization if you’re doing it handheld, and you’ll need to have a high ISO setting.
Auto-focus might be a problem if it gets too dark, as a digital camera may not be able to find a focal point quickly enough.
So if you’re a street photographer with a film rangefinder loaded with Ilford XP2 at ISO 400, the odds are somewhat stacked against you at night. This is one of those times when you wish you’d caved in and bought that Fuji X100s.
A street market at night, as it happens, is one of those wonderful scenarios where everything comes together.
As the light bulbs are bright, you’ll have natural vignetting. The goods might have been arranged to form a perfect frame within a frame.
The stall hawkers, even when they spot you, would be too preoccupied with selling their wares to their customers, while the customers’ attention would be on those wares.
This person did spot me…
Oh well … and to challenge myself, this:
Thanks for reading.
Hong Kong Lucida 