[skipper954]

Hi Will

These are my comments without looking at the others. If I am redundent, sorry.

First in terms of content, this is not a very interesting shot. The fg people and signs are a bit distracting, and I look at the shot and can't find anything to really focus upon. I think to myself, "ho hum, another market". There is nothing unique about it. It doesn't tell a story.

It would have been a much more interesting idea to go into the market and capture the people and activity, finding something or someone of real interest. That is from a practical point of view not at all easy, though.

Now technically, this is still a bit flat, Will. I think that you could improve that aspect using levels and alt/move the right and left arrows on each individual channel, r, g, and b until color starts to show up, then backing off just a bit. This adjusts the black and white points for each channel, I think. (Rob, correct me if I am wrong), and produces a nice "pop" to the image.

Finally, regarding the composition, I thought that cropping out the rh signs would help, but it didn't because I miss the large tree.

skip

well, I just read the comments. Noone agrees with me, yet.

As an aside, I was seemingly often underexposing even though the image looked good on the itsy bitsy camera monitor, so now I alway shoot with an overlying histogram. This histogram is not the most accurate things in the world on camera, but it helps tremendously.