Some comments appreciated

[mart_brown]

Hello - I'm new to the business of posting on a forum.

I've been living in Shanghai, China for the last two and a half years, taking pictures wherever I can. I've just uploaded my 2010 favourites into a folder on Photo Radar and wondered if anyone would be able to comment on a few I will post a couple of my current favourites here.

Thanks in advance!

[silversnapper1]

Nice pics of everyday life there Martin, I like them.

[Tom Peppiatt]

I really like some of the photos Martin, the colours are great and the details are well defined!

Regards

Tom :]

[matt wilson]

I like the first a lot the other two do little for me .having said that there are much better shots in the gallery.

[Stormsong]

I like the first one too. It would have been nice to see the woman with a really large cleaver in her hand, to link her to the fish with their heads cut off! I see the cleaver lurking on the board in the background. Nice work though!

[pburness]

Agree the first one is a good shot, but would have been a great shot if the woman was working with the fish. As it stands she looks very formal and slightly uncomfortable.

A close up of that fish table could of made an entry into the food competition!

Phil

[karenoliver]

Great photos, the sort of photos that I really like :-)

Karen

[alfbranch]

Is it just me or is teh woman in the fisrt shot blurred. I agree with the comments about her not being at her chopping board with her vleaver.

[mart_brown]

Thanks for the feedback guys! The image of the women with the fish heads was one of the rare times that a Chinese person actually stopped and posed for me in this way. I have lived in Shanghai for over two years now and the local people here are usually quite shy having their photo taken. This shot was set up as best I could with my limited chinese and taken very quickly - I wish I could have had her move around and got some more shots!

I'm still interested if anyone has any more comments about the last image. I almost deleted it, but then kept coming back to look at it more. I really like all the layers with different things going on. In the background there's the man taking a picture, then the van moving next to the taxi with the van logo merging with the taxi, whilst the man in the pink shirt is a hawker trying to sell me a dvd or fake bag. I have a feeling I really like it because it's personal to my experience of living in China. However, does anyone else see anything of actual photographic merit to is - or maybe has some ideas of how it could be processed in photoshop differently. It is full frame and not cropped.

Thanks again!!
Martin

[Tom Peppiatt]

I think the last image is quite good and does have some, maybe not a lot, but some photographic merit. I.E, the eye contact between you and the man in the image, also the colours in the image.

Regards

Tom :]