Tram's bend

Date: October 26, 2008
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Aperture: f/8
Shutter speed: 1/250
ISO: 200
Focal length: 50mm
Format: NEF

Tram Lane Crossing

Date: October 26, 2008
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Aperture: f/8
Shutter speed: 1/320
ISO: 200
Focal length: 50mm
Format: NEF

Riding the Ding Ding

The antiquated trolleys are a pleasant and charming part of Hong Kong's robust public transportation system. Sitting on the top of one of these with the window pulled down, on a nice day, riding through Central, is a quintissential Hong Kong experience. I hope they never get rid of these. In fact, I have read that some U.S. cities like LA are considering reinstalling trolleys to revitalize certain areas of the city, after having removed them decades ago.

Date: October 26, 2008
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Aperture: f/8
Shutter speed: 1/125
ISO: 200
Focal length: 50mm
Format: NEF

Goldfish Street

Hong Kong has a street for everything. Runner street (shoes), bird street, flower street, women street (clothes, etc.) and of course, goldfish street. The block or two of Mong Kok is lined with vendors dealing with all things aquatic. Walls of bagged fish are lit by the soft glow from the fish tanks.

Date: October 25, 2008
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: 50mm f/1.8D
Aperture: f/1.8
Shutter speed: 1/125
ISO: 200
Focal length: 50mm
Format: NEF

Street Meat Vendors

In Chinese, there is a phrase that literally means to go out and walk the street. This phrase's meaning is to go out and walk around, do some window shopping, etc. Well Hong Kong is one of those places where you can really go out to "han guay". Many of Hong Kong's streets are brimming with people both during the day and night. You can go out and there always appears to be something happening or something to see. No wonder that there are some Hong Kong people that look to Canada as a boring place - everything in Canada is closed by 9 (or 5 if you do not live in the bigger cities) - since everything in Hong Kong only begins to liven up after the sun sets.

Date: October 25, 2008
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: 50mm AF-D f/1.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter speed: 1/500
ISO: 400
Focal length: 50mm
Format: NEF

Fishmonger

There's something about a Chinese-style grocery store with all the hanging meat, swimming fish and weird animal innards that many Westerners would be loathe to consider food. Well this indooor grocery market I stumbled upon in Kowloon was full of people buying their groceries and the food was most certainly fresh - from live chickens, live frogs and swimming fishes. There was haggling and pointing as people tried to get the best deals and freshest produce/meats. Unlike the very sanitized Western supermarkets like Safeway, this place makes sure you know that you are getting fresh.

For my shooting in the market, I set my D700 to auto ISO with a limit to 800, had my 50mm and just went at it. The one thing I have to keep in mind, which became apparent to me after reviewing my photos on the computer, was that I need to remember the D700 has less depth of field than my previous camera. Gotta get that focus right!

Date: October 25, 2008
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: 50mm AF-D f/1.8
Aperture: f/2.8
Shutter speed: 1/160
ISO: 400
Focal length: 50mm
Format: NEF