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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Hong Kong waterfront
It was one of those 50-photographers-one-week books, this time in Hong Kong. Day-in-the-Life books are even more concentrated than Week-in-the-Lifes, but even so, everyone had a full schedule, morning...
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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – The Map Room
This is the old Map Room of the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington, London. A venerable institution, more or less next to the Royal Albert Hall. Built in 1830, this was the core of the Society,...
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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Khmer Dancers
Over on the other page we do street photography, and while this is hardly a street, and indeed it was on location for another shot, it is about moment, that essential ingredient in all unobserved...
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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Darfur women
It was the year after the fighting in Darfur erupted, in Sudan. I was in the middle of a two-year book project on the country (Sudan: The Land and the People), and I had an assignment from American...
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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Day to Night
This was a commission for the London Chamber of Commerce, and if you’re at all familiar with London, you’ll know that this is not the most up to date skyline. And that dates the shot to the...
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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – As Close As It Gets
On the final leg of shooting for my latest book Tea Horse Road, I was traveling up one of the more remote valleys in southwest China, the Nujiang. In fact, it’s a gorge for most of its distance in...
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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Mandalay Hill
I’m not completely sure why this is a favorite of mine. It probably has something to do with the very direct, but slightly enigmatic, expression on the boy’s face as he looks towards me, complicated...
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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – Geisha
As you can tell from the article on Color Themes on this week’s other page, I’m drawn to the idea of capturing a distinct and unified range of color in a scene, and the purpose of that article is to...
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Michael Freeman: How Did You Shoot That? – The Place
This is actually the name of a shopping mall, The Place, in the heart of Beijing’s Central Business District. It’s main feature is a huge LED screen covering the entire pedestrianized street. In...
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Michael Freeman – How Did You Shoot That? – Japanese cranes
As my other article this week, on Graphic and High Key, explains, the core idea of this kind of shooting is ‘white on white’, but usually with smaller darker tones to give definition. What more...
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