This woman was engaged in a long and intense discussion just inside the entrance to Malacca's historic Cheng Hoon Teng Temple. She knew that four photographers were shooting her simultaneously yet showed no signs of either self-consciousness or annoyance. The light streaming through the open door to our left illuminated her face. By putting half the face in light and half in shadow, I create abstraction that
suggests her character without fully describing it. I use my spot-metering mode to expose for the lighted side only, allowing the rest of the face to vanish into the shadows.