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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.


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.


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 ).


NIKON D90 + 70.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 230 mm, 1/250 sec at f / 5.3, ISO 200

#1 Perhaps less vignette.

#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.

surenj wrote:#1 Perhaps less vignette.

#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.

All three shots are excellent. The offset girl in #1 just works.

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.

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

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

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.