Apples and Honey, a photo from Djizak, East

Photographer's Note

Apples are said to have come originally from this part of the world; Almaty, the former capital and still largest city in Kazakhstan, was called "Alma-Ata" - "Father of Apples" - during the Soviet period.

Along the road from Tashkent to Samarkand (which is paved; it's beyond the left edge of this picture), you will often find stands selling apples and other products. This group of stands, outside the town of Bahmarstoy, is probably the largest, and since this was the time of the apple harvest, apples were plentiful, colorful, and tasty. The large yellow jars contain locally produced honey, and I believe that is garlic and onions in some of the white jars.

Technical: Curves to raise the brightness overall, then Hue/Saturation, selected for the red-yellow part of the spectrum, and raised saturation.

linask, buscape, fulvio52, shevchenko, gunbud has marked this note useful

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linask (2930) 2008-12-09 9:38

Nice repeating pattern of yellow and red. Well saturated, but not over-saturated colors.
Maybe it would make sense to crop out left side of the photo a bit. Without visible end market would look almost infinite. That should create an interesting effect.

Linas

buscape (6219) 2008-12-09 10:13

Hello Daniel,
I like your capture of this colorful market scene.
Good POV and vivid colors. I tried to enhance the effect of the light conditions a little bit more and made a workshop for you. Hope you like it.
Best wishes,
Helmut

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fulvio52 (8314) 2008-12-09 12:21

Hi, Dan.
Interesting composition, with those yellow & red repeating patterns to polarize the attention and that walking-in figure in upper left to provide scale and a touch of dynamics. Glad to see you finally switched to sRGB, Adobe's fine for printing but doesn't work nohow on internet. Too damn dark, even on Apple, which already has a higher luminance than Windows (2.2 versus 1.8)...
Have a good day, I'll be seeing ya.
Fulvio.

shevchenko (20560) 2008-12-09 18:03

Hi Daniel,
Wow, every stall by the street selling same types of fruits, good pov to show perspective effect, nice soft sunlight shinning, harmonious and relaxing view at country side, thanks for sharing.
Ally

gunbud (34066) 2008-12-09 19:03

Hi Dan,
Wonderful lines and smooth textures to these vividly colored apples and jars of sweety nectar.
Regards, Tom

mafegan (8626) 2009-10-12 23:13

Hello Dan
Quite a funny photo to see the same products on sale in so many stalls. You obviously never need to be hungry for an apple in this part of this world! I like the detailed composition with just a couple of children in the distance. Tfs, Marlene