2016 Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival Image - Take by Ken Pang

Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival Image

Hong Kong every year has a wine tasting festival promotion event. "The Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival". This event has a history of ten years and attracted many visitors. Over the world, different brands of wines, beer, whisky, champagne, etc.. brought to the exhibition by Exhibitors. Visitors can taste the world's wine. In addition to wine, the venue also provided a lot of delicious food. e.g. Oysters, lobster, scallops, steak, etc... That night was very lively and there were bands playing music. The atmosphere was very nice. If you love a drink. You must spend the time to join Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival. Feeling this atmosphere. 

Beautiful Place Don't Miss It!

History

2009 (1st session)

The Hong Kong Tourism Board has designated 2009 as the Year of Hong Kong’s Food and Wine Festival. As one of the key tourism development and promotion projects. 3 days exhibition. Only guests, sponsors, and media are admitted. Admission is free. You can purchase a wine tasting pass at HK$150. Taste a total of 12 glasses of wine at different booths in the exhibition. You can also purchase the coupons at HK$10. Wine voucher, with one or two wine tasting coupons for tasting wine at individual booths. There is a wine tasting classroom in the venue. Local and international wine tasting experts teach and assist different levels of wine tasting skills, and there are also cooking seminars.

2010 (2nd)

There are more than 230 wines and food booths. This year, there is a special wine zone. In which only can use the "wine tasting pass", wine coupons can not be used in the special zone. The wine tasting pass is worth HK$200, and there are 12 wine tasting vouchers that can be used in all booths. Wine tasting vouchers with a value of HK$10 cannot be used in the special wine zone. The wine tasting pass also comes with different coupons, and there is also a gift of wine glass souvenirs.

2011 (3rd)

The number of wines and food booths 230 increased to 287. 19 participating countries, including Bulgaria, Georgia, and Japan, participated for the first time. In addition, there are two-party events held respectively, named Spanish Night and Japanese Night, which provide special wines and cuisines and ethnic performances from the two places.

Admission is free. The standard wine pass used in general booths includes 10 wine vouchers priced at 200 Hong Kong dollars. The premium wine pass for exclusive wine areas has increased from 300 Hong Kong dollars last year increased to 480 Hong Kong dollars, with a quota of 9,000. [1]

2012 (4th)

The last exhibition was at the West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade. There were 310 wine and food booths. Two new exhibition areas were added for desserts and a new product area. In addition, a tasting wine cultural gathering with Spain and Italy. Activities include enjoying Spanish award-winning wine and food on Spain Day. Italian street food gathering to taste Italian wines. The event was supported by many foreign wine alliances. Including the top Italian wineries and Bordeaux Daily, etc.

Admission is free. The standard wine pass includes 10 wine vouchers priced at HK$200, and the premium wine pass includes 5 premium wine tasting vouchers and food coupons priced at 480 Hong Kong dollars. This year’s new ticket is added at HK$20. Dessert taste coupons and a standard wine tasting pass of HKD$300 for 2 per person. The standard wine tasting pas for 2 persons" comes with 15 standard wine tasting coupons. Single purchases are standard wine tasting coupons of HKD$10 each and premium wine tasting coupons of HKD$50 each.

2013 (5th)

The first time exhibition at the New Waterfront in Central. A key project in Hong Kong. There are 299 wine and food booths, with 16 participating countries, and Bordeaux wine experts are invited to host wine tasting classes. There are also Michelin chefs who cook in exhibitions. In order to facilitate crowd control. This year's first admission fee is HKD$30 per person, and the standard wine tasting coupon has been increased from HKD$10 to HKD$15 [2].

2014 (6th)

The Kai Tak Cruise Terminal exhibition. This year have five themed exhibition areas, with about 270 wine and food booths [3]. Compared with previous sessions, the number of attendance at the 6th session increased by 30%, and the number of attendance on the first day increased by 70%.

2015 (7th)

Exhibition at the New Waterfront in Central.

2016 (8th)

Exhibition at the New Waterfront in Central.

2017 (9th)

Exhibition at the New Waterfront in Central.

2018 (10th)

HK Central Central night Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival exhibition at the New Waterfront in Central.

2019

 ( Cancel )

2020

Prevent the epidemic. The Exhibition was changed to an online platform.

Japan - Okinawa - Travel Photography

Japan - Okinawa - Cape Manzamo 萬座毛

Travel Photography Review

When traveling to Okinawa, Cape Manzamo is one of the famous locations. Tourists will go to visit. Okinawa's famous travel location points to point distance between is very far. Therefore, I recommended you rent a car. Rent a car to travel is better than using public transportation. It is because you can save more times to go to more famous locations. Cape Manzamo has a car park and has enough parking space for parking. There is a small market near to the car park. Sells a lot of local specialties. There is an endless sea on the shore of Cape Manzamo. There has a famous rock like an elephant nose. You can along the walkway to enjoy the beautiful scenery and photography.

- Hyperfocal -

Definition 1: 

The hyperfocal distance is the closest distance at which a lens can be focused while keeping objects at infinity acceptably sharp. When the lens is focused at this distance, all objects at distances from half of the hyperfocal distance out to infinity will be acceptably sharp.

Definition 2: 

The hyperfocal distance is the distance beyond which all objects are acceptably sharp, for a lens focused at infinity.

Video link:
https://youtu.be/N02vk1I7NTc

Okinawa Cape Manzamo Travel Photography.

Crepuscular Ray

On the Plane Sunrise Travel Photography.

On the Plane Sunrise Travel Photography Review

On this trip to Japan. First time shooting sunrise on an airplane. The sky color is very beautiful. But these times I didn’t use the hyperfocal shooting technique. The shutter speed setting was not fast enough, so some photos were a little bit blurry, and some photos were still acceptable. I need to unsharp mask in the software. In these times I have shooting sunrise on a plane experience. Next time I’m able to take better sunrise photos on a plane. Use hyperfocal shooting technique and fast enough shutter speed.

Below's link is the next time's shootings:

https://kenkenworks.blogspot.com/2017/05/hong-kong-to-osaka-japan-on-airplane.html

https://kenkenworks.blogspot.com/2019/06/to-japan-okayama-sky.html

Sunrise Travel Photography.

Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE

Tv(Shutter Speed) 1sec

1sec shutter speed, so the photo have little blur.

Av(Aperture Value) 11

Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE

Tv(Shutter Speed) 1/10

1/10 shutter speed is sharper than the 1st one photo.

Av(Aperture Value) 9.0

11 changed to 9

Use this mode is easier to catch this moment, but you must hold your camera stable.

Cocktail - Poster - Easy roll stand - All Day Breakfast - Photogarphy - Mini Club

Poster, Easy roll stand - Mini Club 

Design and Photography Review

Poster Design and Photography. The shooting venue is in a Night Club. There the light is very weak. The shooting direction and conception. The front object is clear, the back area is hazy. Flash beam tube, the light setting is downwards from a high place. The difficulty point is in the setting angle of the light and the flash power level. The cocktail is the main object, near the cocktail is a candlestick. Both objects need the same clear.  Flash should not be too strong or too weak. What aperture should be used? and the aperture should not be too large. It is because the cocktail and the candlestick should also be clear. How to let the above idea be successful. We need to try several times. Setting right flash power, right aperture, right shutter speed. When success taking this photo. Then put the promotional contents requested by the customer on the artwork. The design techniques, photo and text proportions, light and dark processing, 1/3 2/3 golden proportions. These are all techniques that will be used.

This photo takes by DSLR Canon EOS 550D.

Artwork made by ai and photoshop.

Lighting set on the cocktail glass. The focal point on a cocktail. Blur shop dark area make a background. The lighting area and Dark area make a contrast.  Use handwriting fonts to make a welcome feeling.

All Day Breakfast - Photography and Colour Management Review

All Day Breakfast Photography. Below's photo has color management. Take photos to make a Color Management. This process is given a photo a color standard. Colorchecker Passport has a Grey color surface. 1. Use your camera to take a grey color surface. 2. Camera manual setting white balance, use grey color surface's photo. Colorchecker Passport has many color square surfaces. 3. Take this surface photo. 4. Take the main object's photo. 5. Open Adobe Lightroom import all photos inside from the camera. 6. Use Colorchecker passport many color square surface photos, to make the color profile. 7. Use this profile to apply to the main object's photo. Why do we need this process? It is because different devices show the color is different. They have their own individual color profile. So person A sees the photo color, which may be different from person B. But we need to make a standard in the photo. When A and B's device same to make color management, then A and B person see the same photo color's different will be small. If you still have an interest in this process. You can search on google or youtube. There has much information you need.

All Day Breakfast Photography.

This photo is taken by Canon EOS 550D

This photo has Colour management by Adobe Lightroom

I used a Colorchecker passport to color manage this photo.

Poster, Coupon, Easy roll stand - Food Photography - Mini Club - Design Review

Poster, Easy roll stand - Mini Club - Design Review

Mini Club Poster and Easy Roll Design. Customer this times request hotel design direction. The design feature of this time is the photo size, color, pattern, and Adobe Garamond fonts. In the upper part of the post, the slogan and the oyster photo are the protagonists, and in the lower part of the poster a smaller photo one big and three small. The overall vision is 1/3 2/3 golden proportion. From the blank position of the text until the ratio between the photo and the photo is quite good. Use light brown and dark brown colors to create contrast, dim patterns, and the following elements to achieve a hotel design direction.

Coupon - Mini - Design Review

Mini Club coupon Design. Customer this times request night club direction. The design feature of this time is the photo size, color, and pattern. On the right side of the coupon, the logo, and the promotion text, are in the 2/3 area, and on the left side part of the coupon is a photo 1/3 area of the coupon. The overall vision is 1/3 2/3 golden proportion. From the text area to the photo, the ratio is quite good. All coupons are used in a dark color and pattern to create a high-class nightclub direction. Following all about these elements to achieve a nightclub design direction.

Mini Club Coupon Design Review

Photo - Food 19F - Photography Review

Shooting purpose at creates sunshine atmosphere and delicious food.

Flash setup:

Two light sources.

1. The backlight softbox.

2. Left-hand side 90-degree softbox.

3. Right-hand side set a mirror to create a reflective fill of the light.

Poster - Photopraphy - Booklet - Packaging - Booth - cecedille

Poster - cecedille - Design and Photography Review

Poster - cecedille - Design and Photography Review

This Skincare product is making skin whitening and smoothing. Out concept is snow. Snow's feature is white and smooth. In this photo, we use a thick white cloth to make a background. The thick white cloth visual in the photo is very near the snow.

Booklet - cecedille - Design Review

Cecedille this series's main ingredient is OXYGEN. The main color tone is blue. The Blue circle is OXYGEN. You can see the square booklet center has a human face and hands shape. The bright area is on the face and hands shape area. It can be easy to understand this product is a skincare product. 

Packaging - cecedille - Design Review

New box structure ideas.

Merge: box structure and inner fixed product structure.

Purpose: Lower production costs.

Booth - cecedille - Design Review

Facial masks, skincare booth design.

Hong Kong's beauty industry exhibition is held at the Wan Chai "Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre". Many beauty companies attract business at this exhibition

We use a light yellow color, a wooden cabinet,  a comfortable sofa, Banners, stickers, etc accessories to build up the SPA feeling. Hope to bring customers a feeling of relaxation, comfort, freedom, and nature. Another side, we use two sidewalks to more increase the exposure of the exhibition. To attract more customers can watch our exhibition.

Light film, Photography - Poster - Plastic Stand - Perfume

Light film, Photo - Perfume Marc Joseph
Design and Photography Review

 

The light film, Photo - SUZANNE SHAW
Design and Photography Review

SUZANNE SHAW perfume design and photography. This perfume has ice meaning. The bottle cover shape is ice. It is very special. First, we take a product shot. Second, we according to the ice creative idea make an ice-cold background. Photo retouching the product in the background. The product is 1/3 on screen. The background is 2/3 on screen. It is a golden proportion, is a good comfortable visual.

Poster, Photo - Elysees Fashion Parfum
Design and Photography Review

Perfume Plastic Stand Design Review

The design of the perfume display stand will start from the following points. Name of the perfume, the shape of the perfume bottle, the main color, and the perfume bottle pattern. When having the relevant design concepts. You can sketch some layouts, select the appropriate sketches, and then draw graphics by computer. When confirming the layouts. You can discuss this with the manufacturer. Select display stand's materials and colors, and manufacturing samples. If the effect is satisfactory, it can be producing. If it is still has a problem, it needs to be correct. Usually are some minor changes, but also is not a big problem.

Materials: Acrylic plastic