Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Got a thin skin? Then look elsewhere. Post a link to an image that you've made, and invite others to offer their critiques. Honesty is encouraged, but please be positive in your constructive criticism. Flaming and just plain nastiness will not be tolerated. Please note that this is not an area for you to showcase your images, nor is this a place for you to show-off where you have been. This is an area for you to post images so that you may share with us a technique that you have mastered, or are trying to master. Typically, no more than about four images should be posted in any one post or thread, and the maximum size of any side of any image should not exceed 950 px.

Moderators: Greg B, Nnnnsic, Geoff, Glen, gstark, Moderators

Forum rules
Please note that image critiquing is a matter of give and take: if you post images for critique, and you then expect to receive criticism, then it is also reasonable, fair and appropriate that, in return, you post your critique of the images of other members here as a matter of courtesy. So please do offer your critique of the images of others; your opinion is important, and will help everyone here enjoy their visit to far greater extent.

Also please note that, unless you state something to the contrary, other members might attempt to repost your image with their own post processing applied. We see this as an acceptable form of critique, but should you prefer that others not modify your work, this is perfectly ok, and you should state this, either within your post, or within your signature.

Images posted here should conform with the general forum guidelines. Image sizes should not exceed 950 pixels along the largest side (height or width) and typically no more than four images per post or thread.

Please also ensure that you have a meaningful location included in your profile. Please refer to the FAQ for details of what "meaningful" is.

Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:18 pm

On the weekend my eldest daughter and I visited the <a href="http://www.kncsydney.org/index.php?content=kmapplicationpack.html">Kirribilli Markets</a> - which is held on the fourth Saturday of the month at Bradfield Park, on the corner of Alfred St and Burton St, Milsons Point, just outside Milsons Point Station (basically just under the Sydney Harbour Bridge on the north side).

Whilst we were there along with browsing the food and wares we took a walk across the bridge and also grabbed some street images.

Just as we were coming back down the stairs up to the pedestrian walkway across the Sydney Harbour Bridge I spotted this young lady heading up the stairs and waited for the right moment and composition with a long lens.

Image
NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 200 mm, 1/1600 sec at f / 5.3, ISO 200

It was a very sunny and hot day at the open air Kirribilli Markets and there were lots of women toting umbrellas as shade from the sun - I took a number of umbrella shots and I liked the feeling of this composition.

Image
NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 180 mm, 1/1000 sec at f / 5.0, ISO 200

Lastly an image of my daughter at the midway point on the bridge with our cakes (which we ate momentarily :) ).

Image
NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 230 mm, 1/250 sec at f / 5.3, ISO 200
D600, D7000, Nikon/Sigma/Tamron Lenses, Nikon Flashes, Sirui/Manfrotto/Benro Sticks
Rodney - My Photo Blog
Want: Fast Wide (14|20|24)
User avatar
Remorhaz
Senior Member
 
Posts: 2547
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:14 pm
Location: Sydney - Lower North Shore - D600

Re: Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Postby surenj on Mon Feb 28, 2011 5:07 pm

#1 Perhaps less vignette.

#2 nice use of the umbrella diffuser in this one. :mrgreen:

#3 is a great capture. I reckon you could consider getting rid of the hodge podge of color in the OOF area to reduce any distraction. Also consider some pano crops as well.
User avatar
surenj
Senior Member
 
Posts: 7197
Joined: Fri Sep 15, 2006 8:21 pm
Location: Artarmon NSW

Re: Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Postby Remorhaz on Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:46 pm

surenj wrote:#1 Perhaps less vignette.


Image

#2 nice use of the umbrella diffuser in this one.
:)

#3 is a great capture. I reckon you could consider getting rid of the hodge podge of color in the OOF area to reduce any distraction. Also consider some pano crops as well.


Image
D600, D7000, Nikon/Sigma/Tamron Lenses, Nikon Flashes, Sirui/Manfrotto/Benro Sticks
Rodney - My Photo Blog
Want: Fast Wide (14|20|24)
User avatar
Remorhaz
Senior Member
 
Posts: 2547
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:14 pm
Location: Sydney - Lower North Shore - D600

Re: Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Postby sirhc55 on Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:11 pm

All three shots are excellent. The offset girl in #1 just works.
Chris
--------------------------------
I started my life with nothing and I’ve still got most of it left
User avatar
sirhc55
Key Member
 
Posts: 12930
Joined: Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:57 pm
Location: Port Macquarie - Olympus EM-10

Re: Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Postby Reschsmooth on Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:21 am

I love the composition and treatment in 1. I believe the vignette works.

I prefer the reworked version of #3 as well with the slight desaturation of the background elements.
Regards, Patrick

Two or three lights, any lens on a light-tight box are sufficient for the realisation of the most convincing image. Man Ray 1935.
Our mug is smug
User avatar
Reschsmooth
Senior Member
 
Posts: 4164
Joined: Tue Aug 01, 2006 2:16 pm
Location: Just next to S'nives.

Re: Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Postby ozimax on Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:23 am

Whilst I realize that your lens may not have been able to do this, I would have liked to have seen all the girl without her legs being chopped off below the knees
President, A.A.A.A.A (Australian Association Against Acronym Abuse)
Canon EOS R6, RF 24-105 F4, RF 70-200 F4, RF 35mm F1.8, RF 16mm F2.8
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)
User avatar
ozimax
Senior Member
 
Posts: 5289
Joined: Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:58 am
Location: Coffs Harbour, NSW

Re: Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Postby PiroStitch on Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:07 am

Love the second one as you can see the lady's face :)

I think it's time to start taking more photos from the side and front :)
Hassy, Leica, Nikon, iPhone
Come follow the rabbit hole...
User avatar
PiroStitch
Senior Member
 
Posts: 4669
Joined: Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:08 am
Location: Hong Kong

Re: Kirribilli Markets - Street Images...

Postby Remorhaz on Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:29 pm

PiroStitch wrote:I think it's time to start taking more photos from the side and front :)


Crazy talk! :)

I'm sort of doing this shoot people as they are moving away from me into the scene rather than from in front theme... eye's they are so overrated! :)

Seriously though - a very large proportion of my photography is of children (I take lots of photos of school events for my childrens school) - mostly candid and they are pretty much 100% with them facing towards or on the general direction of me (i.e. eyes in all of them and often very close up filling the frame). So I must admit to experimenting with the facing away in my street images and compose for the look of the scene since I normally don't do that at all.
D600, D7000, Nikon/Sigma/Tamron Lenses, Nikon Flashes, Sirui/Manfrotto/Benro Sticks
Rodney - My Photo Blog
Want: Fast Wide (14|20|24)
User avatar
Remorhaz
Senior Member
 
Posts: 2547
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:14 pm
Location: Sydney - Lower North Shore - D600


Return to Image Reviews and Critiques