Young woman carrying books on her head

[MikeC91]

Do you have any comments about this? Is there enough going on to make it a good photo?

Regards

Michael

[bje07]

You should make it vertical

[rpcrowe]

I like this image but probably prefer a straightened version, cropped a bit tighter with some shadow adjustments, especially on the young woman's face...



I thought about cropping it more tightly at the top but, the store signs seem to give the image balance.

[Donald]

Do you have any comments about this? Is there enough going on to make it a good photo?

I think the risk you face is that there's too much going on and that attention is taken away from the primary subject.

I don't think that is the case and that what else is going on provides us with context and adds to the narrative of the image. You could do various things, such as add in a vignette, to focus attention on her.

[Manfred M]

+1 to Donald's comments. The shot works, but there are so many distracting elements that it doesn't work as well as it could.

That is always the issue with street photography; we can only capture what is happening, rather than what we would like to have happened.

[madcrow]

Sometime things are best left alone. love the image, well spotted.

[bnnrcn]

I think Richard's edit imporoved the image, good capture

[Shadowman]

There is a method of analyzing a composition where the viewer divides the image into quadrants and tries to determine if any information can be gleamed from each. There's a lot in each quadrant but does it do anything for me or provide me with any viable information? Are all quadrants exposed correctly, sharp? If not, can there be something you can do to rectify the disconnects?

[William W]

Do you have any comments about this?

I think that you took the shot that was there.

I think that it is often better to prepare to take the shot which is going to be there.

Assessing the shooting scenario, it would be an odds-on bet that she wasn't going to remove the books in any quick time. It appears very likely that you could have made haste to get a Front-on Camera Vantage Point.

Planning the shot and moving quickly to get in front of a Street Subject often provides several advantages, including but not limited to:

> allowing the street and/or façade to provide a line of perspective to lead into the Subject
> allowing a front on connection to the Lens (typically stronger than a twisted neck)
> less likely to attain Subject Motion Blur @ 1/125s (which you do have in that Profile Shot)
> a greater degree of flexibility to blur the (deeper) background creating better Subject Separation

WW