Night Shooting at Petaling Street

There had never been an ideal time to shoot at Petaling Street. The place was still closed in the morning apart from a small stretch during weekends called Pasar Karat - where the morning market was held. It can get too crowded at noon to early evening during the week, as the tourist came in. I have never been comfortable shooting there alone. Too many suspicious stares. Plus the vendors being mainly foreigners, it was hardly much of a spectacle.

A lot of people were just sitting and chatting. The foot traffic was slow.

I wasn’t expecting to see a convenient store open at this hour

Some of the stalls were still busy

While some was less so …

So, it would be best to venture there in a group, which was what we did last weekend after shooting at Pintasan Saloma. We reached there at around 9 pm after a quick dinner at Al-Baik. In the evening, the weather was pleasant, and the crowd was already thin.

This was at REXKL

The old sign post

We had plenty of opportunities, with the vendors busy clearing up for the evening. My set-up that evening was the X-Pro3 with XF 56mm f1.2 prime lens. I shot in jpg with classic negative emulsion. It was a blast.

Coffee?

The old 60s architecture

The old and the new

Caution

Time to head home

The emulation captured the subdued atmosphere at Chinatown. Even when I was opening the files in Lightroom, I could not stop shaking my head at how great the captures were. If I realised how good the lights were, I would have snapped more photos. I got close to a hundred snap, and plenty of them were keepers.

The photos in this entry were taken using the Fujifilm X-Pro3, with the XF 56mm f1.2 lens. I also applied the on-camera “Classic Negative” emulsion.