Event Details

Facilitator｜Matthew Kwan and Hoiling Cheng (Project CROW)

Time｜2024/10/05 3:00pm – 5:30pm

Location｜Tea Room, Koon Man Space

Language｜Cantonese

Fee｜$50 reservation fee, refundable at the end of workshop

Please register before the event.

 

The skink is a diurnal species, but nighttime swarms of termites are too tasty a feast to miss!

Nature education initiative Project CROW captured this moment in May 2024, during the early phase of a visual research commission on the wildlife of Chuen Lung, Hong Kong. A special detail of this photo is the cinematic lighting—the gentle shadows outlining the skink and its prey were made possible by Project CROW’s very own DIY light diffuser.

On 05 October, we invite wildlife and photography enthusiasts to join us at Koon Man Space and learn about lighting a nature photoshoot on any budget. Matthew Kwan and Hoiling Cheng of Project CROW will lead participants through making their own diffuser and immediately head outdoors to experiment with the new gear! In doing so, we hope to encourage participants to appreciate the diversity of insects, learn alternative methods of macro (close-up) photography, and hopefully capture their own images of the majestic ladybug (or ladybird, if you please).

The workshop will comprise of the following main parts:

1/ DIY diffuser

2/ Outdoors macro photography

3/ Indoors studio shooting

4/ Impromptu photography salon

Target Audience

• • People interested in local biodiversity, especially insects
  • People interested and with experience in wildlife photography, looking to improve or even create their own gears

Remarks

1. The event will be cancelled if a Black Rainstorm Warning or a Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal No. 8 or above is issued two hours prior to the start of the workshop, workshop already in progress will continue; details of the arrangement will be notified via email or phone call.

2. As this workshop has limited capacity, if you are not available to attend after registering, please let us know in advance so that others can participate.

3. Participants are encouraged to bring their own camera and external flashlights. For participants using their phone for photography or without an external flashlight, handheld-diffuser can be made instead.

4. Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable walking shoes for protection, and long-sleeved attire is advised to shield sunlight and mosquito

 

About the Facilitators

Project CROW is a nature education initiative founded in 2018. We believe that close encounters and hands-on experience in nature are the best ways to engage and raise public awareness in environment protection. Through accurate knowledge transfer, we hope to increase public’s understanding of nature, ultimately conserving and securing our planet’s precious natural environment for future generations. We are dedicated in providing tailor-made activities such as guided walks, nature experiential workshops, as well as art-making workshops, to bring people closer to nature.

Hoiling Cheng

Love insects from a young age, passionate about moths in recent years, especially interested in the life history of caterpillars, studied Master of Science in Environmental Management at Hong Kong University in 2017, led various moth outings at Kadoorie Farm and Botanical Gardens.

Matthew Kwan

Started birding at the age of six, been working in art and photography education ever since he graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts of Baptist University in 2012, became an artist educator for the Through Our Eyes Photography Education Programme in 2016, he also instructed in art workshops of the “Hong Kong Bird Eco-Art” project for the Hong Kong Birdwatching Society.

 

The “Chuen Lung Storyboard – Visualising a Community and its Cultural Heritage” is financially supported by the Arts Capacity Development Funding Scheme of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The content of this programme does not reflect the views of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.