Gazing at Shilong's Twilight Through Medium Format: Each Frame is a Childhood IOU

A Street Photography Note of Shilong's Cultural Scene in Dongguan | Pentax 645D + 55mm Lens Time Slices 📷 Equipment Selection Logic Pentax 645D's Mystical Advantages: 40-million-pixel CCD sensor, shadows as mellow as aged rice paper, highlights as restrained as vintage tungsten lights 55mm lens (equivalent to 44mm) - the most natural storytelling focal length matching human vision, avoiding wide-angle exaggeration and telephoto voyeurism Twilight Parameter Presets: ISO 400 (balancing noise and dynamic range) White balance fixed at 5500K (preserving the contrast between tungsten light and skylight) Exposure compensation +0.7EV (preventing shadow detail loss) 📍 Shooting Location Guide in Shilong Old Street 1. Zhongshan Road Arcade Corridor | A Slow Ballet of Light and Dust Shooting Strategy: Wait for sunlight to pierce through arcade pillars at 17:23 (daily variance ±2 minutes) Focus on old school uniforms on clotheslines, f/4 to blur the elderly cyclist in the background Childhood Memory Trigger: "Yonggu" brand locks at the hardware store, identical to the bunch on father's waist 30 years ago 2. Bamboo Crafts Street Threshold Stories | Artisans' Fingerprint Museum Close-up Guide: 55mm minimum focus distance 0.45m, for capturing bamboo weaver's callused tiger's mouth Use f/2.8 to separate background, letting blurred bamboo strips form natural frames Conversation Tip: Exchange a 5-yuan bamboo brush for half-hour shooting permission 3. Shilong Railway Station's Old Platform | Time Wrinkles on Railway Tracks Light Magic: Focus on rusty timetables, let 17:38 sunset light spots fall on "1993 Spring Festival Transport Notice" Wait for green-skinned trains passing by (need 1/15s shutter for motion blur) Warning: Platform is abandoned but still patrolled, use "once bid farewell to grandmother here" story for leniency 4. Baihua Market Closing Time | Fading Symbols of Daily Life Decisive Moment: Fish vendor's splashed water reflecting neon signs, f/5.6 balancing reflections and vendor silhouettes Capture Ultraman toy in vegetable piles - collective token of 90s children Parameter Reference: ISO 800, 1/60s, relying on lens SR stabilization 5. Red Cotton Road Tang Building Rooftop | God's-eye View of Childhood Access Secret: Exchange rooftop key for half hour with double-yolk lotus paste mooncake for doorkeeper Composition Philosophy: Overhead shot of bamboo poles crossing like music staff, waiting for sparrows to land as musical notes Long exposure for rising steam from rice noodle shop below (ND8 filter needed) 🎞️ Medium Format Post-processing Techniques Phocus Development: Add magenta to highlights, cyan-blue to shadows, recreating 90s Hong Kong magazine tones Grain intensity +15, size +20, simulating Kodak Gold 200 film texture Local Refinement: Use burn tool on arcade shadows, letting moss in brick joints breathe Clone tool to remove AC units, restoring pure skyline from memory 🍂 Memory Revival ✨ When medium format viewfinder becomes a time capsule, Shilong transcends geography to become collective subconsciousness of all southern town children. Those moments frozen by Pentax 645D will eventually decode into chemical equations of tears and laughter on someone's retina.