Pasar Gadong 50mm Tour

Last Sunday, an outing with the usual fellow shutterbugs, Anakbrunei and Bruneian. The theme was to use ONLY 50mm lens and the target destination was Pasar Gadong, Brunei's main wet market. The 50mm is a lens that needs several practices to master. Bruneian suggested that we use manual focus. At first few shots I used manual focus but after that I couldn't help myself flickering to auto focus mode. Next, a 50mm is a prime lens, its no zoom lens that we all rely so much. I found this lens do help improve your interaction with the subject, you tend to get closer. Its a first time that I really talked to the people after I got my shots. That day I learned a different level of photography and I still remember the quote I read from the internet, "Shoot first, then talk". Thats what we all did. In fact everywhere we went, people kept asking us who we were and we kept on replying we were not from press, we are hobbyist into photography. Here are some behind the scene, the normal routines of the Pasar Gadong.