Selling Fruit

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• gardenwife (103)
• [2004-07-08 13:35]

The display of food is attractive. I like this shot and the tastes it brings to mind.

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• doreeneden (1014)
• [2004-07-08 14:44]
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• Rinie_Hoff (9320)
• [2004-07-08 15:17]

Hi Hanza, I've seen a couple of your pictures, and there are some I like, I think they deserve more views, because you show us nice things. The problem with this picture is perhaps that there is a main subject, namely the fruit vendor, and although the background is nice, it's less important here. But the sky behind him, is all overcast, all white. Beside that, I don't know whether you can choose the aperture on your camera, but if you would choose a big aperture, like F4, or something like that, and aim on for instance on his face, you have some sharpness in front of his face, and a bit behind him. But the most important thing in the picture, the vendor, would be sharp, and the rest would be a bit blurred.
If you want to see how that would look, take a look e.g. at Darren's or Manny's portraits. That is more extreme than you would want here, but it demonstrates my point.
Also, to attract the attention more to him than to the white sky behind him, you could try and crop a bit more.
Just keep trying, digital pictures do not cost any extra!
And if you want people to take a look at your pictures, may be you colud start reviewing a bit more.

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• Steely (887)
• [2004-07-13 4:34]

i like street shots, and this is an interesting one :)
The POV could be different, taken head on and parallel pushcart and taking in more of the vendor and his cart into the frame will give a better composition :)

but again, we all see things very dfferently :)