One of the things I love about travelling is the bustling markets, vibrant stalls and fascinating repair shops to be found, wonderfully free of the shackles of health & safety or conformism.
I'm certainly not a regular of candid portraits (besides wedding photography), but I did try hard on the Thailand trip to push myself in this direction a little more. Thai people were certainly more willing to agree to be photographed than in Morocco, certainly without asking for payment/compensation, which was handy and less disheartening.
Top photo - probably one of my favourite of the tour - mending electric motors in a small alcove filled with useful trinkets and hand tools. I got in nice and close to shoot through the foreground gadgets, took a handful of shots and left with a reciprocated smile, a thank you and a wai.
2nd row left - Mountain girl with puppy - taken in a remote mountain village on the Laos boarder, full of traders and visitors to the regional Miss Hill Tribe contest. I have shots of that which may make it into a "rejects" post, but this was my favourite of the day, taken in a quieter part of the village.
2nd row right and 3rd row - stall owners in Chiang Mai's Chinese new year celebration market, full of all kinds of delicacies, most complete with legs, wings, beaks or shells .. but (mostly) very delicious and we ate as much as we physically could.
2nd from bottom - a craft shop, in the back streets of Bangkok. This guy was a bit shy (jaded?) and I had to settle for a back shot, but the lighting and variety of nik-naks are great. The un-intentional placement of my reflection in the mirror top right really elevates it for me (didn't even notice it at the time until I was processing it).
Bottom shot - trying to capture the wider vibe of a street flower market. I had popped out to photograph the scooter rider with the tablet, with the market in the background, then noticed the senior gent pulling a hand cart up the road, so waited for him to join the scene. Unfortunately I didn't compensate for the lens distortion that I've inherited while using my 16-35mm on the 5D3 (full frame) and the correction took him a bit close to the edge of the frame, however I still love the framing of all the mini-scenes in one shot, all the details and elements that make it up. Shade from stalls out of shot on the left made a vignette looking shadow on one side, so I've tried to balance that up .. it perhaps looks a little odd, but believe me an apparent one sided vignette looks stranger.
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