Thread: Brilliant BW Photography by a Hong Kong Master

Came across this set of beautiful images on the Wall Street Journal online. I googled the photographer in the credit line and it turns out Ho Fan is a well known photographer, actor, and filmmaker in HK. Gorgeous lighting, timing and composition, and by the looks of the images and the settings, all film.

http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/12/0...Picks#slide/11

Wow! I wish I could shoot like that. I was trying so hard to figure out #11 and then when I finally figured out it was a double exposure, I realized there was text to the right of it explaining that. I made my head hurt for nothing. Thanks for sharing these Ed.

Yeah, he (or she?) really feels the light amazingly well. Great compositions. I love the cleverness involved in using the corner of the frame to form an arrow to define the movement of the person walking through the shot...

-Ray

I love #4....the figure almost appears to be walking a tightrope.

Amazing.

Those are wonderful. Thanks for posting the link.

terrific thanks

thanks. somewhere online is a video of him talking about his work. Can't find it right now though...

Good stuff. I'm with Luke on #11 ... I ended up thinking the gray/smaller images were a reflection, that he was shooting through some glass.