Travel snapshot – Little lady and the Forbidden city

Another snapshot on The Forbidden City of Beijing, China. I’ve posted some photos of it before, but this time we had a little Chinese lady dressed up like a princess to the Qing dynasty of ancient China as our main character! 🙂

Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 10-24mm Ultra Wide Angle lens. Shot in Program Auto mode, with Shutter speed 1/100 Sec and Aperture f5.0. Focus distance was set to 20mm. ISO 100. Auto White Balance. No flash fired and +1/3 EV Stop being compensated with Matrix metering. The Photo was cropped, levelled, distortion corrected and sharpened with Adobe Photoshop Element 8.

This travel shot was made on my way up the stairs to the main hall of the Forbidden city when the little Chinese lady caught my attention in her attractive costume. She was actually just another visitor to the museum came with her parents. “She is so cute! Can I take a photo of her?” The answer was of course a yes.

I would hope to have swapped my Nikkor 10-24mm with a medium zoom Nikkor 18-105mm for better Bokeh, but the result was not really that bad either. Instead of a portrait shot, this was actually a combination of portrait and landscape photo. Having said that, the lady in front still draws most of the viewers’ attention. It proved that a great object can always compensate for slightly off composition in travel photograhy! 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo guide.

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.