Floating Market

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• KevRyan (20240)
• [2008-02-12 1:12]

With a few slight differences this image would almost certainly have been one of my favourites of the year so far.......I love the S shaped composition and here you have caught the shape really well in the foreground and midground with the guy pulling the eye back across - you even have the upper end of the S going off to the top right hand corner - just a little more of the person in that corner and you would have had a near perfect 'pull' back in that direction - but as I say the line is there and you have an S - just not as well defined and powerful as it could be. My second little quibble - and it's only a couple of degrees - is the slightly sloping water line - downhill to the right - it just gets my eye. The third is related to exposure - there is some burn but difficult to tell how natural this is - I think a touch more black in the shadows - a levels adjustment (?) - might just lift the image that little bit in terms of contrast.

Lastly I think there may have been a much stronger candid image here than the sense from your capture that they posing - I guess they spotted you in mid stride rather than a formal pose but I can see a better image moment here...........it is easy for me to say - hindsight and all that .........hope there is something useful there....just my perspective on it.


bw Kev

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• Nadeemkhawar (675)
• [2008-02-12 4:28]

Hello JS Lee ,
I am amazed why this photo do not have many point. Realy disturbing thing. As I am feeling this is the fine presentation of a culture and many things in this photo make it perfect composition.Thanks Lee for sharing and showing such beautiful culture.
With best regrds.Nadeem Khawar...