At night, when Middle Street is wet, and there are few people blocking the view, you will see beautiful reflections of coloured lights from the various shops. If you find the right spot and wait for a while, you will inevitably see someone walk across one of the reflections and cast a shadow. I find this makes for a more interesting photo.
Problem is that to get the perfect photo you have to stand there, holding your camera, on in this case your phone in the ready position to take about 10 shots, just in case some don’t work. (Most don’t.) Standing like that with your phone pointing at, urm, something, makes you look and feel like an idiot. People walk past glancing at you and surely thinking: “What is the weird foreigner doing now?”
After I posted this photo I noticed the sign towards the top right. Apparently, after all these year of having a sizable number of Koreans who speak very good and sometimes perfect English, and now foreigners who speak it as their mother tongue, Korea sill thinks that “Grand Open” is acceptable English. Great street lighting…shitty English, STILL!
I think Koreans use English in advertising the same way English speakers use comic sans font—excessively, incorrectly, inappropriately, and obnoxiously, and they don't even know better. :(
ReplyDeleteI'm highly impressed with the image clarity and color tones in this one. I think photography by means of mobile phone is a genre that is likely to take off soon.
ReplyDeleteAre you at all familiar with a fellow named Shawn Rocco? He’s a photojournalist out of Raleigh, N.C. (US) who had a blog until a few month ago called Cellular Obscura. You can still find it here [http://cellularobscura.blogspot.com/ ] but he’s moved on to a full website format here [http://www.shawnrocco.com/about ].
To me, the possibilities are just a little bit exciting – photography is leaving the realm of the gearhead elitists and getting back classic shutterbug stuff. Which might mean it'll be more about the world than it is about the machine. And that's very cool.
I just found this picture because it was linked from Bobster's House (see above) and I agree with him: excellent photo, given the difficulty of cameraphone photos. I've done the same thing - standing like a doofus, trying with both hands to hold the cellphone perfectly still, to snap a shot... I don't think any of mine turned out as well as this one did, though.
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