Hong Kong: The best photos from Vitaly Raskalov. Hong Kong Photographer Hong Kong Photographer

Photo walk in Hong Kong ..

Going on a trip and want the most impressive photos? A professional photo shoot in Hong Kong is exactly what you need. One of my favorite shooting formats is a street photo shoot, or a photo walk. This event is very popular with travelers all over the world. After all, it allows you to get several advantages at once:

  • Get versatile photos that show you in the dynamics and rhythm of this crazy city 😉
  • Visit not only the tourist spots of Hong Kong, but also its secluded corners among the locals
  • Fully enjoy the walk, not being too distracted by photographic equipment, posing poses and numerous shots.

But the most invaluable acquisition from the walk will be pictures with your sincere emotions. Getting to know the city, you will be fascinated by new locations, the taste of local dishes, unfamiliar flavors, architecture and exteriors. All these moments will be sensitively captured by my camera. Almost without staged shots - only real and living feelings.

With a local guide, the city will open to you not only from the pompous tourist side, but also reveal its spirit and personality. This is what makes you fall in love with Hong Kong and come back here again. The footage will show not only you, but also locals, passing cars, figurines of dragons sparkling in the sun, breathtaking vertical skyscrapers. Photos will be filled with life - after all, the city lives with its own rhythm and vibrations, sounds and gestures. We will capture most of these moments, which will form a mosaic of your memories of a wonderful journey. All this is available in an easy photo-walk format.

How is the photo session going?

Most of the time I live on Koh Samui in Thailand. It is approximately three hours by plane from Hong Kong. Therefore, in most cases (when I am not in the city) I prefer to do wedding photo sessions in Hong Kong, and of course street photography is a photo a day from 4 hours. In other cases, shooting may involve additional costs and booking a date with a prepayment. On the same terms, I am available for a photo shoot in Macau.

I am also familiar with Hong Kong and know completely different locations for filming: from authentic areas with famous sights and endless city traffic to quiet and cozy beaches.

The art of street photography is about integrating the photographer gently into the process. The work process is built as comfortably as possible for you.

The duration of the walk is determined jointly based on your wishes, if any, and my recommendations. The average duration is 4 hours. It consists of the availability of the route and the places that we want to visit without fail.

How to order photography services in Hong Kong and Macau?
So, you have appreciated my work and are ready to place an order. Then everything is just as easy and fast!
- Fill out the order form.
Do not forget to indicate where exactly you are interested in shooting: Hong Kong / Macau, and shooting format: individual, Love story and others). I usually reply during a business day.

If you are interested in a wedding photo shoot in Hong Kong and would like to discuss the details, please contact me on WhatsApp +66993071740

I also provide services wedding photographer in Macau both for official ceremonies and during a romantic trip.

Tickets are bought, suitcases are packed, and tomorrow Hong Kong will open its doors to you - with a mosaic richness of colors, streams of people, glass jungles and secluded temples. In this city, expressive street photography stories are produced - dynamic, like the flight of a dragon or peaceful, like Buddhist mantras.

Over the past six months, I have been to Hong Kong 5 times, and, you know, having traveled half the world, I can say with confidence that this is the place where I would stay to live. This city is very similar to Moscow in terms of dynamics and rhythm of life. But, unlike Moscow, Hong Kong has retained only the best qualities.

A year and a half ago, having visited Singapore, I decided that it was there - a real paradise. Now I can say with confidence that I was wrong. Hong Kong is an incredibly beautiful city that you want to visit again and again. There are kind and helpful people here. Here you are respected, whether you are a local or a foreigner. And, most importantly, it is never boring here.

I want to digress right away. This post will contain photos from 5 different trips, I tried to collect only the most interesting shots here.

Our history of rooftop conquest in Hong Kong began with one of the most interesting neighborhoods in the city, Ceasuway Bay. Where we went immediately after checking into the hotel, there we met with our like-minded person from Canada named Tom.

Before the popularization of urban exploration in Hong Kong, there were only two people like us. After these photographs, there were significantly more roofers in the city, and castles began to appear on many roofs. Before that, having walked around 10-20 buildings, it was difficult to find a closed door to the roof.

The security situation in Hong Kong is rather strange. All approaches, exits to the roof are equipped with cameras, and each door has one or even two alarms that can immediately notify the police and the security service of the building. But with all this, in all business centers there are no access modes, and from Monday to Friday, in work time alarms are disabled and the doors are open. So, if you want to look at the city from a height without any problems, you can safely buy tickets to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is the most expensive city in the world in terms of housing costs due to a lack of supply in the real estate market. Housing in Hong Kong is 55% more expensive than London. In this regard, I want to tell you about a unique place called "Chung King Mansion". This huge anthill is located on the mainland (Kowloon). It is known for the fact that the cheapest hostels in Hong Kong are concentrated here, as well as for the fact that most of the city's immigrants hang out here: Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, etc.

Chungking Mansions has a lot: tiny guesthouses with several rooms, curry eateries, a market on the ground floor where they sell all kinds of junk, shops, foreign exchange offices, tourist offices where you can get a Chinese visa. At the entrance to the building, Indians and Pakistanis are constantly rubbing, who offer you to buy hashish, weed and even cocaine from them. For the sake of curiosity, on one of the trips I decided to check what would be sold to me in the end. For 120 Hong Kong dollars (600 rubles), they sold 3 grams of Kashmiri hashish. I gave the hashish to one of the Europeans who live next door for a tasting.

Without a doubt, this building is the center of the whole of Hong Kong.

The inner courtyard of the building.

Vadim on the roof of one of the skyscrapers near the famous Victoria Peak. Perhaps from here one of the most best views to the city, many times better than from the very peak.

District Central. Real estate in this area is the most expensive in the world, the price per square meter is from 70 thousand dollars.

All the same Central, only this time from the mainland of the city.

Homeless on one of the central streets of the city. I would like to note that there are practically no homeless people in Hong Kong, this is the only time I have seen a homeless person during my entire stay.

Roof of building K11.

The height is almost 300 meters. It is the second tallest building on the mainland.

Vadim on the roof of Central Plaza.

Central Plaza is notable for the fact that there is the tallest church in the world.

Hong Kong SkyChurch is located under the Central Plaza spire, which is 374 meters high. The skyscraper was erected in 1992, and for some time remained the tallest in the world. In addition to the height, Central Plaza is famous for its unusual shape - triangular in plan, it can easily withstand hurricane winds. We got to the roof, pretending to be visitors to the church.

Qingma Bridge is a suspension bridge in Hong Kong, the sixth longest in the world.

The bridge has two levels, along which road and rail traffic is organized. The upper level has a six-lane motorway, three lanes in each direction. On the lower one there are two railway tracks and an alternate two-lane road for service purposes and for traffic during strong winds (Hong Kong is sometimes exposed to typhoons). The main span of the bridge is 1377 meters long (more than the famous Golden Gate in San Francisco), the height of the pylons is 206 meters.

Of course, we climbed onto it.
I climbed it twice, the first time at night in the company of Simon from Paris, and the second, already in the company of dedmaxopka at dawn.

A photo shoot in Hong Kong is an adventure comparable to some funny fairy tale in which you accidentally fell from the pen of a crazy writer who is so passionate about the process that you have to surrender to chance and enjoy what is happening around you.

Hong Kong is replete with various charismatic corners, so beautiful that they just ask for a shot. Streets and parks, mountains and beaches - there will never be a question of where to photograph your model.

The sun and its multiple reflections from mirrored skyscrapers and sunbeams from passing cars create an unimaginable play of light, thanks to which the city is simply transformed, saturated with volume and contrast.

It is also easy to hold a photo session in Hong Kong due to the fact that both the new and the carefully preserved old are very well combined and coexisted in this multimillion city. Ancient and common houses border with sparkling skyscrapers, well-tended parks with impenetrable jungle in the mountains ...

I wrote about this in a post in search of the real Hong Kong.

A huge amount of various details saturates the frame so much that sometimes it even distracts from the main objects, which, in principle, does not in the least interfere with continuing to shoot and shoot.

A huge number of people in Hong Kong require a separate word. And thanks to this, if you want to get deserted streets in the frame, it is better to go to the photo session early in the morning, when still lonely passers-by rush to work and with difficulty, but still you can find several secluded places.

In general, the most ideal scenario for a photo shoot in Hong Kong is to start early in the morning, at six o'clock, when the first rays of the sun only embrace the sleeping city, catch the reflections of light in skyscrapers, work for several hours and, with the first influx of residents rushing to work, hide in a cozy cafe and have a cup aromatic coffee, examining the resulting frames on the camera.

After the coffee break, get out into the narrow streets that are hidden from the sun and continue filming there. And believe me, literally every second passer-by will offer you their help, which at some point becomes somewhat intrusive, but all this is done so good-naturedly and with a smile that it seems as if this is not a curious and happy Chinese man who wants to help him, and you it is impossible to refuse.

And once looking back, you realize that half of the block is blocked, someone slows down the cars so that they do not interfere and do not climb into the frame, someone holds a flash, someone gives your model a bottle of water, and the rest just stand there and Smiling happily and discussing your actions, they look.

And having escaped from the noisy streets, you set off in search of a secluded and secluded place, of which there are a great many in Hong Kong. You can go to an old temple or climb the mountains. Or you can get on the fairies and sail to a distant island, and there you can continue to photograph your model.

Well, in the late afternoon, returning to the city, you can play with the setting sun, composing a composition of beautifully illuminated buildings, passers-by and your model hurrying about their business.

Well, if you are a fan of night photo shoots, then Hong Kong will delight you in this too. Beautiful illumination on skyscrapers, always illuminated streets and subdued light on the embankment ...

In general, be that as it may, in Hong Kong you can shoot almost a full day, without stopping. And this is not a bit, absolutely not annoying or distracting. It seems that the whole city seeks to help you, by all means contributing to the fact that you have a beautiful and original picture.

And what is most interesting, no matter how many photographs you take in Hong Kong, you will never, believe me, never be able to repeat the same frame. The city is changing, as if by magic, and this is the beauty of this place, and this is what I love it for.

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