Day 55: Market Wide Shot

2026-04-02

Hello!

After watching James Popsys's video on the three shot rule, I thought I might give it a shot.

I tried to capture the same scene, but from three different perspectives: wide, middle, and close-up. This is that wide shot; the middle will be tomorrow, and I'm thinking the close-up should be thrown in the bin (it's a bit blurry and weird — not a shot I'm proud of). We'll see.

But what a location to try taking photos at! There's a lot going on, from families and tourists buying produce, to sellers preparing goods and chatting with coworkers.

The market is a historic building, and they highlight some of the historic photography shots of the market's past. It's always a bit inspiring to see the same area photographed over time. People's fashion changes, a building gets renovated, different shops are stationed at different spots (or, one booth stays for decades while everything around it changes!)

With my wide lens, I went up the stairs to the lookout point above, and captured as many booths and paths as I could in one go. I think the lookout point is intended to be for staff members eating during their lunch break, but I got up there just fine and no one stopped me. It's a bit of a theme, isn't it? So long as I'm not bothering anyone and I look like I know what I'm doing, I can go places that would be inaccessible if I was shy (or purposeless).

More details will be included in tomorrow's article. I'll be swapping lenses and trying to get a shot of multiple people talking at one booth. And, if I can clean up the third image: a photo of one cashier and an eye-catching sticker. Stay tuned.

Finally, some more odd currency. I checked — this street sticker doesn't actually exist as real currency, but it's a cool design! With the UK banknotes getting a new design soon, it's fun to imagine a paper currency without historical faces on it. Our US banknotes could take a lesson or two.

Cheers,
David