November 2014
Beginner to intermediate
192 pages
4h 8m
English

Tea factory, Huiming, southern Yunnan, 2009
A sorting table in a tea factory. As with many factory-industrial scenes, the photographer’s problem is trying to escape the “annual report” look. I needed the scene for a book, but how to make it more interesting? In fact, the hand movements were deft and rapid; just watching the actions repeated over and over again was slightly mesmerizing. A cinematographer might have considered undercranking to give a jerky, sped-up treatment. To get something of this hyperactive flavor in a still image, I locked the camera on a tripod and shot many frames. From these I chose a-few-to-several positions ...
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