We're out on the Mekong River at Chau dock. We came out at sunrise because we're
at the floating market and it's an amazing, astonishing place. The
photography you can get here is absolutely awesome, but it's real fast
and furious work because the river is flowing very fast and our awesome
boatman here - he has real trouble positioning the boat where we need to be
to do the shots but nonetheless it's pretty amazing.
Now we've just tied up against one of these boats here on to my left and asked
them if we can come onboard and see if we can do some shots -
just get in real close. They're such lovely people so they said 'yeh, not problem'
and it's kind of craziness you know this really is hard and fast photography, I'm
gonna see if I can take a quick shot of where our Melissa is at this very moment
as she's filming me, I'll put it in the ClikASnap gallery - absolutely awesome.
So we can come on board and just get a few shots now this is really tight, it's
not a lot of room. Let me see what we've got, I love this girl on the top here...
I can stand in here? Okay cảm ơn bạn, cảm ơn bạn is thank you and it's always worth being polite, I
know very, very little Vietnamese but it's always worth being polite. So I'm
standing on a pile of coconut husks down here but it's about the only viewpoint
you can get. I'm just looking down into this work area - Melissa
hand me the camera just a moment I'm gonna see if I can show the guys what's
going on down in here... I can hardly see a thing in the screen the sun's so bright.
Now these guys live aboard their boat and they trade up and down the river and
they brought in bananas and we got coconuts, other fruit and the whole
family live on board this little boat and they travel around and come into the
markets here which is where we are right now.
Isn't it just astonishing? Isn't it astonishing, I'm gonna see if I can get a
bit of a family portrait. Melissa do you want to come
in here in the coconut husks with me? Do you want me to hold that while you climb in?
This is what we're standing on, that's quite a nice shot in itself, look - a foot on a bicycle.
Okay you want to take the stick? All right, take the stick, see you wanna climb
up and then the guys can see what we're looking at, how awesome. I'm just gonna
see if I can get a couple of shots I quite like this this this line of this metal thing
here, see if I can photograph down through there
very tricky exposure so we're going to try and get that histogram somewhere, so
it's not clipping in between the two. Let's see I'm just gonna take a quick
shot, what do we got... open up my aperture a little more, I love the guy on
the top. My lense isn't quite wide enough really, hi guys hi xin chào!
Come on, don't be shy! Hello... I quite like the shot down with the hat down over her eyes.
It's quite funny but I wish I could get her to look up the people are just
lovely, they're a little bit shy, probably a little bit, you know, what's this huge
great big bearded Westerner doing climbing on our boat? This is what we
call pick a spot because you kind of have to find a spot and wait for that
little decisive moment. I've just caught a nice shot of this girl popping
coconuts into a sack, it's so hard to see faces because of the hats.
Let me get my exposure right and I'm gonna see if I can just get a shot of...
oooh I just got a glimpse of her face then, Xin chàoe I caught you out
then didn't I! I just got a little glimpse of the girl as she looked up at me - I'm not sure it's the best of shots
because these sorts of shots needs to be considered, you've got to spend time you
know, stay with the people we've only just come on board and they're a little
bit oow, how is this? If you spend maybe 10 or 15 minutes here and get to know them so they're more
relaxed and then these things come together, but really we just wanted to show you this extraordinary place
Can you imagine just being in a little boat here? We've got a little boat here, we've got our little
boat here that we've hired, we've got Ben here, hi Ben....Look at that, that's a great shot, I don't
know if you can even see that guy sitting in a doorway, there's so much going on all around us.
So much to photograph, so much to experience and you just imagine what
it'd be like, how it would feel to be somewhere like this, shooting these sorts of pictures.
That's the floating cafe she's going around she going around
selling cups of coffee in plastic bags so that it doesn't spill
we just had one and well it's absolutely fantastic coffee as well.
Xin chào! Now she's ignoring me and I don't blame her, but the light is fabulous as well
It's an early start but how awesome is that.
So I mean look guys, just imagine this, coming
and shooting in a place like this, really the photos are gonna be awesome
I'm gonna post a few on the ClickASnap gallery and link below this video so you can
go and check them out. Sorry this one was a bit all over the place but I
think it was worth showing you just kind of where we are and what's going on. So
if you'd like to come on a workshop like this, if you're the sort of person who
thinks 'Yeh you know what? I love that adventure, I'd love to shoot that!'
Then please leave me your details at photographycourses.biz/123
but bare in mind this is an adventure, if you think you'd like to
there's a big difference between like to and going to, if you're the sort of
person that thinks yeah the dates work I'm going - period, then leave me your details
if not please don't because it just means disappointment for everyone
because we don't have enough people coming when we think we have, we put a
lot of work and effort into setting it up and then we have to cancel it
which is disappointing for everyone. Anyway guys, I hope you've enjoyed this
little look at the floating market I'm just going to show you a couple more
little scenes - thanks Melissa. I'll grab the camera back - because look at this, it's just awesome
There's our floating cafe lady over here and the guys working below, I think that would
make an awesome shot, if I was to stand up where this girls just put a line of
coconuts and then we've got this little place here with the clothes on the back
great for laundry shots... Anyway guys
I truly hope some of you will come and join me out here next year, we'll see you later.