There’s quite a few people offering a Hanoi photography tour, with most Asian cities you tend to have 2 or 3 expats who are charging expat prices, then a bunch of locals charging about way less.
Half the reason I book these photo tours is just to see the city from a locals perspective and stay away from the main tourist attractions. It’s more about meeting a local who can take you to some of the places not on the web and knows when and where to go. Don’t remember how I found Viet Anh and Hang, but you can visit them on Facebook here and check them out here. They’ve got to about the cheapest Hanoi photography tour on offer, I think I tipped them 50% of the cost to do the tour and it was still dirt cheap.
They’re not professional photographers by any means, but what they are is a very nice couple who don’t charge near enough to take you around Hanoi. Honestly it wasn’t a shit hot start, they showed up late and after calling someone there wasn’t much of an apology so didn’t have very high expectations from the outset, Perhaps that helped. Anyway first up they took us to a local food place for lunch, some dirt cheap Pho, which was better than what you get at most places. After that we just walked around the city, visiting the old quarter and some cool places. This Hanoi photography tour won’t be winning any awards but they’re two very nice locals just out of University so happy to help them out.
I only shot film here and this is the first trip I’ve gone on where I came back and the photos were shit. I shot some JCH Streetpan and Rollei SuperPan and the both came back severely underexposed. I blame this on the processing lab as every other roll I’ve shot there’s never been more than 1 or 2 photos that have been that underexposed. Anyway, for street photography in Hanoi, people aren’t that excited about getting their photo taken so it’s not an easy place to shoot in.
Long Bien Bridge is a must go to, walk over it, around it and you’ll get a good shot. It’ll be on the itinerary of any Hanoi photography tour or any normal tour so you’re sure to come across it. I actually didn’t see this until the next day on the bike tour and went back to try and get a better shot, which I didn’t. It’s a nice place with some interesting places but by no means a photographic hotspot, at least to me.
Long Bien Bridge Hanoi
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