Qiang Mai Portraits Part 2: The City Hall Page

Well, for the 2nd and last stop of our Qiang Mai Portrait shoot, we go to another place bustling with the urban presence, City Hall! For this shoot, I have to say that some people are best shot naturally in a fashion as candid as possible and well, here I have one such model.


When you get models that gets very conscious over every command you give, then the best thing is to go with the flow and stop commanding and start waiting for the right moment. Since you can't generate the mood through commanding, it's up to the environment to do the job. For the cover photo, with dimmy yellow lights and lots of passerbys walking past and trying to see what's happening, the model naturally gets into a 看设么看？！state and you have to seize the moment. It's such a short-lived moment that even I wonder if i captured it when i clicked the shutter~

The shot is another shot of patience and waiting as well. Now not for the model, but for the background. Waiting for the stunt cyclists to be in the "clutches" of my model was not easy and often the model has to be always ready when I shouts "Get ready" as the backgound gets into position~

Funky places give funky portraits i guess?

Another shot that requires the background (in this case the foreground) to be in place~

Hope you guys like these portraits~ I definitely enjoyed shooting them~:)