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You can travel the length and breadth of the country taking photographs but sometimes the ones that have meaning are the ones on your doorstep...
..so this one is for Janet and me as it's my favourite of this year so far by a mile.
Some of the stalls on Doncaster's Fish Market have been in the same family for three and four generations. They have helped to create something for the town to be proud of - if only Doncaster's Town Council could but see it.
| Camera: | canon eos-1DsMKII |
| Lens: | EF16-35L |
| Recording media: | digital iso 100 |
| Title: | Selling Shellfish |
| Username: | 
keithh |
| Uploaded: | 12 Feb 2007 - 9:04 AM |
| Tags: | Architecture, Doncaster, Fish, General, Landscape / travel, Market |
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Really like how this is lit, a wonderful, perfectly exposed capture
'Sagoodun Kieth
I have to agree with your own comments on this one.
Superbly mapped tones and all that. I would have cropped a little off the left hand side just so that the pillar sits in the same relative position as the one on the right.
One of the best shots I've seen lately.
Dave
Excellent HDR image, Keith. Capturing the two persons without any movement is quite a feat. I remember that commenting my first HDR image you told me that it was basically a technique for still image and with these shots you are proving yourself wrong.
Antonio
Keith - I've got a closed up shot of Durham market to come and know exactly what you are saying.
Once again for me personally this is up there with the interior HDR shots you took at York.
Some would say this is missing something - but not me. Technically excellent and so obviously personal.
Dan
LOL...I'd love to know what was missing. I know where this stands as an image - but don't let that stop people saying what's wrong with it - you may get a discussion of course.
I just came up with a way of colour matching straight shots with the HDR'd shot, Tony, which means I can drop standard images into HDR'd ones....makes life interesting
I think the discussion is going to be over composition. For some the composition will be too random and maybe lacking balance and focus.
I'm not saying that I necessarily agree with that - just that i can see the possibility for some to think that way.
{EDIT - see previous post !}
Thankfully my seminar at Focus is on composition
Cropping from the left alters where the three lights and the words Fish Market stand - cropping minor elements to the detriment of major ones is never good photography. If someone sees this as random...well words would fail me.
I think a lot of people will see this as random.
However thats the beauty of composition - rules are there to be broken and from an artistic viewpoint that is always a good thing.
It looks like it's housed in a beautiful historic building, that set of lights (which I absolutely love!) and pattern on the floor/pavement have a real Victorian feel about them....a treat to see.
Looking at it again it's maybe more Art Deco than Victorian lol.....can't make my mind up.....keep coming back for another look.
Ali
You wanted to the discussion .. I'm merely sitting on the fence 
(Quite painful it is too ... )
haha...the comments are really making me laugh. Very pleasantly surprised at everyone's sense of humour this early on a Monday...good stuff. Honestly, I think there is so much to enjoy with this Keith - the shadows of the shutters and the zones of light in the f/g, the three different shades of green in the lighting..and the composition!! The clicks must be a-coming. Cheers, Howard.
I have no problem with discussion - although we seem to be discussing what other people 'might' say, I just don't see this as random by any stretch of anybody's imagination.
Maybe I should have put it in Photojournalism and claimed to have been under attack while I was taking it.
Oh don't worry, Howard - these discussions often crop up in my work.
Quote: the people were added back into the HDR file afterwards
So did they not appear at all in the HDR? Or were they just so blurred as to disappear?
So this is HDR + Normal then? :-P
Maybe you should coin another phrase! MDR (Mixed Dynamic Range) for instance.
Matt
Obviously I appreciate how you've portrayed the symbiotic relationship between man and fish. The colour sequence of green, blue, red, fish colour, orangey, blue body-warmer, red, microwave is a timeless classic of compositional insouciance.
However, I feel that it's missing something.
I shall return later.
only thing missing here is my click.
But now everything is fine
Boyd - Maybe it's missing a hook
(Note the clever play on words x 2 Mr H!)
D
I can see why you like this, Keith. Technically indeed excellent. Plenty of atmosphere, too.
I think I might have been inclined to crop it slightly more on the left, so it would look like more symmetrical, which I think might increase the impact, but that's just me, of course.
Anyway, good job!
Conrad
Hey .. I'm not wearing canvas today .. i've gone for SPANDEX !
Well as an intelligent and cultured guy who doesn't watch such trash I'll leave that to you to work out ..
Keith .. be careful .. you might start receiving hake mail ..
I can see why it's one of your favourites, it's brilliant!
Jumped out at me as a HDR image, I don't mean that in a derogatory sense, I opened the thumbnail because I'm interested in what you can achieve with this new software, the detail, texture and dynamic range is fantastic.
Now about the composition .....as suggested by others, I would favour a slight crop to the LH side, I've read your comments but I think that would actually put the light cluster and fish market sign in a better position within the image ...and I'm a sucker for symmetry!
I think someone may have suggested the composition could come across as random because it's so close to symetrical, it could look like that was your aim but you've been careless with the LH side. I'm not suggesting that of course, I'm sitting on the fence with Dan!
Rob
Careful it won't take the weight unless Dan get's off first.
I have no problem with people prefering another view point or crop - it's the word random - when I press the shutter button I know it's what I want and I like the light coming in from the left hand railings....it's never random
You know he's lost when he brings it back around to weight ...
" To survive war ... you have to become war "
Rambo
First Blood Part 2
I would have preferred two lights above the entrance, the word 'The' before Fish Market, one less row of bricks in the pavement, two less fish on the ice in the display cabinet, the body warmer to have been red, their mobile number to have some more 7's in it, and the fairy lights to have been arranged in a red-blue-green sequence. Oh, and a 4ft tall plastic model of a headless sea bass holding a sign saying "stop me and buy one" outside the right hand market entrance.
So you see Keith, the composition is all wrong.
;o)
Interesting discussion! Random is a strong word, maybe some of us would have cropped from the left, but that doesn't make it a poor image. Anything but it fact. It does look HDR (sorry HDR GTI), but for me it works very well indeed and I would have been pleased to come up with anything like as good given a day at Donny Market
Yep, this is up there with the best of the best. Maybe it is because I love fish markets, but I like the warm but still realistic tones on the wall. This looks so natural that it almost seems like nothing. In other words, just as it should be. I must hunt down some places like this and try some more hdr's with good subjects.
Patrick
mmmm ho for a plate of cockles i allways like stopping of for one while karen does the shopping.
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