{"id":2769,"date":"2010-08-25T21:37:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T21:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2011-09-12T21:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T21:44:24","slug":"market-scenes-siem-reap-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/market-scenes-siem-reap-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Scenes, Siem Reap Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a few shots, all taken within a few meters of the same spot!<\/p>\n

Markets like this have so much material, but one must resist the urge to move around, searching for just the right subject. Rather, it helps to find some good lighting, and then stand back and observe what compositions can be made.<\/p>\n

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Waiting for a customer<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Using both my 70-200 and 17-25 lenses, I was able to capture several images without moving an inch.\u00a0 You’ll notice that there is quite a bit of “red” in these images, but it’s true to life….the conditions were very “red”. Overhead lighting was a mix of filtered sunlight, fluorescent and incandescent lights.<\/p>\n

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Chicken shop<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

After a while, the vendors got bored of watching a “crazy foreigner, photographer, and go back to work as ususal.\u00a0 I often stay in one place until folks stop paying attention to me. In this instance, I waited for a transaction to take place, hoping to add a bit of interest and “action” to an otherwise static image.<\/p>\n

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Playing while Mom works<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

A few meters from the chicken vendors, a seamstress\/ flower vendor, was working while her son amused himself with some small items which he found in the desk. Often times you’ll find vendors “multi-tasking”, in order to maximize theire income. Most vendors in the markets are women, and many have children who play nearby. Child care centers are too expensive for all but the “rich” and mothers like the woman above, take care of children in addition to working all day to earn enough to support their families.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been checking out local markets to see which will be the best for our 2011 Angkor Photo Workshops. Lighting is a challenge a usual, with dim conditions and difficult white balance control (unless of course you shoot RAW and convert later), but the subject matter is plentiful and the photo opportunities are amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35,150],"tags":[108,105,111,109,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karlgrobl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}