Waterfront park Day to night

Waterfront park a beautiful park stated in Tai Po which is open the whole day except for the watch tower. The waterfront park is also a great location for cycling or jogging or just have a relaxing walk or a picnic. I went there to try and capture both the day and night on one day. To view the whole park from a high point there a watch tower which you can walk up and also people with an wheelchair can ride to the top.

This park is not a creation from nature but is pure man made, as you can see with these flowers all arranged in rows of different colors.

Hidden between all the man made nature there is also a foot massage root which would improve your bodies blood flow. However there have been allot of people walking bear foot on it, I won't cause you might get a nasty case of HK feet from it.

However the waterfront park is probably only few places you might see some bird flying around freely.

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However the tower is even more spectacular at night with all the light lid up and changing colors each time. I should film it the next time.

Through out the park are light so even in the dark it is looks very special. If I have time I would like to see if I could come up with something to try to film it there.

At the moment I really love the transistion between day to night or otherway around cause of the street still lid by the lamps and the sky is not in total darkness and also not too bright, so you can easily find a setting to capture both instead having one to bright and other to dark. However the window opening of this time is very short so there is no slacking around.

If you want to visit the waterfront park you could go to the Tai Po train station and either rider with the shuttle buses or either rent a bicycle to go there, however you could also walk but it is other side of town from the KCR. To see more picture visit my Flickr set here.

One night in Mong Kok/ the Ladies market

This empty street with allot of taxi's parked on the side is actually the busy Ladies Market in Mong Kok after midnight. All the stands clear up and disappears in to thin air with all their fake products. I photograph this set because I wanted to photograph something different than all the tourist that visits Hong Kong. There have probably already been million photographs of the famous Ladies market of Mong Kok but all taken when the market is open and still there. I have not seen allot of people actually take picture when the market is gone.

All that is left of the stands are these steel bars which every morning are used to rebuild the stands of the Ladies market.

Here and there are sometimes a kind of Tee-Pee constructions made from steel frame works and fabrics of the stand folded inside them.

Here and there you would find allot of old wires and cables hanging around but also fuseboxes which powers the Ladies market from the morning till night every day of the week.

To view more picture of Mong Kok at night visit my Flickr set here.

Final Cut version Art of Flying

the Art of flying from Jona Lam on Vimeo.

Final cut version of the entry for the 48 hours film project. This short movie won the best cinematography and film editing awards at the 48 hours film project in Hong Kong. This video was shot with Canon EOS 500d with 50mm f1.8 lens and Sigma 18-200mm and custom picture styling for colorgrading. Cinematography, editing and colorgrading by Chung Dha. www.chungdha.com

A final cut or improved version of the entry for 48 hours film project, with all the material that were shot during the project. So no extra retakes to improve it, just more time for better editing, even though we won the best cinematography and editing awards.

However there are still few kinds of oddities within this movie, like the arm in the mirror. But also the script have few oddities especially what the narrator is saying. Directly : "This Adam, as you might have noticed Adam is not a very happy young man" while you have not seen him or actually seen a certain prequel. But also like she don't know him but in the end she know she is his sorrow?!? Also might have been better if the ending text would had been narrated then just written, cause I know people are lazy to read unless it is a translation of a language they understand. Also I still don't like much of the jokes, especially still don't understand the what is funny about the Chinese name of Adam. The swine flu joke is like so bad it, cause might have changed it to this: "And now he probably have aids". Cause you don't joke around with some decease where people die from. From a certain perspective it look like an advertisement commercial showing difference between a good and a bad product/person.

Enough flaming, now some bloopers and behind the scenes and unused material that were shot during those 48 hours.

Cinematography Show Reel 2009

This is the cinematography show reel of Chung Dha, with footages shot at and or for events or short movies, but also some free time footages shot on the street of Hong Kong. To see more movies from Chung Dha visit our Youtube account here .

Best cinematograph and editing award!!!

The short movie Art of Flying won the award for best Cinematography and Film editing at the very first 48 hours film project in Hong Kong. Both cinematography and editing were done by Chung Dha, who actually went to the 48 hours network meeting just to do some networking and see what the 48 hours project is all about and now ended up winning both cinematography and editing. Also this is the very first short movie Chung Dha have ever filmed.

Congratulations and thanks to the team ( which include Chung Dha, Quentin Kwong, Jessica Wiklund, Katarina Ivarssen , Maggie Hou, David K C Wong, Jeff Chan and Connie Yeung), could not have done it without them and thanks for Arne Venema who actually hooked Chung Dha up with this team.

There were teams with probably people with way more filming experience than our team and using way better equipment or actually have a full film crew.
While our team only have Chung Dha as most experience of filming and acted as a single person filmcrew, cause Chung Dha actually have been filming events with his Canon EOS 500D, also assisted filming for Alan Leung and have actually assisted few films and learned allot from them. We were using the Canon EOS 500D with a custom picture styling which made the film already have great color grading which in post production we did not had to edit and change the coloring of each scene. Editing was on done a 4 year old HP tc4200 tablet pc with Sony Vegas Studio. With winning these award we could imply that better gear does not mean better looking movies.

For those who have not seen the movie yet watch here below.

48 hours movie project

During the Halloween weekend on 30th October 2009 till 1st November 2009 Chung Dha helped out filming and more with a crew and made this short movie called the Art of flying, which successfully made within 48 hours and entered the contest. Only 11 out of the 15 teams made it in time.

The script was written by Katarina Ivarrsen and Jessica Wiklund. Leading role by Maggie Hou and David K C Wong. Side roles Jeff Chan, Quentin Kwong and Connie Yeung. Director of photography, editing, lighting, voice recording and more done by Chung Dha.

This version is the entry version which was made within 48 hours, in the coming week will work on a final cut with the material shot during the 48 hours.

Update: This short movie was awarded with best Cinematography and editing.

Perspective vector car

First time I had to make a car from such an perspective but was pretty intersting to do. This was actually a small project where I had to make this illustration of a car draw with vectors. I pretty much learned that there are not really that much photo's or images of a bottom of cars. Luckly I have acces to press photo's of racing event and found few usefull pictures of the underside of those cards, but totally could not use them as back to draw the vector over. I basically only use the picture as reference and had to calculate or use my eye to get the shapes and sizes correct.

Heres is a view of all the vector lines that was drawn that makes out the illustrations you could see the wheels and underside use allot of line to make them realistic as possible. Also all the shines are loose oval. Basically all the skills from making hundreds of logo's were used to make this car realistic as possible and also make it gloss realistic as possible. What is great to have a vector is that I can easily change the car color and also resize it to tremendous sizes without loosing details. This illustration is made for Spotz Media Group.