This was one of the hardest shoots to do in street photography. There are thousands of people at this market and they are all moving.
I had seen this girl between people walking about and I finally got a shot away and moved quickly onto the next opportunity.
I shot 124 frames this morning looking for something unusual and I think I got it. When you're doing rapid fire JPEGs you don't really see what you've got until you get home. When I opened this, it really tickled my fancy.
Post-processing: Nothing but a crop.
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Are you a member of the Critique Club? Well, if so, it's your turn!
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You nailed the Challenge but didn't receive very good marks (to say the least) I don't know your camera, but have no quarrel with your EXIF data. The girl is sharp. I'd say she was more troubled than yearning, and that may have turned the female audience away as I think most of us (females) would have read her expression that way. The grotesque foreground works for veracity; it doesn't work for sympathy. That turns a bunch of other voters away. There are (well you know there are) some artifacts in the right foreground that are difficult.
Still, kiwiPix, I like this image a lot. So, while it didn't turn the voters 'on,' it, depending on circumstances, could end up in a gallery somewhere. So don't throw this very exciting image out. It's a slice of life that says something that needs to be said about society. Hecks bells, you could write a book about what's being said in this image.
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