Young Rarotongan stallholder

[Jim A]

She was very happy to have her photo taken. The colours of the various stalls were memorable.

[Manfred M]

Jim - Another lovely image. I find these images are fun to take but I have never taken one that I really loved. I suspect the main issue is that the scene is so busy that the shopkeeper is often buried in among their goods.

I wonder if going monochrome and just burning down the background really heavily might be a way to handle a subject like this? It certainly simplifies the image, but the beautiful colours that catch the eye are gone.

[rpcrowe]

Great expression and lovely lady. I agree that the surrounding environment is somewhat distracting, especially the bright chartreuse fabric image left. However, I do think that the colors do add an "island ambience" to the image and her black and gray sarong does differentiate her from the background. If this were my image, I might think of a closer crop such as this:

[Jim A]

Many thanks, Manfred and Richard. Both very good ideas in differing ways!

[Lon Howard]

I do think the bright colors in the background are very important, so thinking softening them a little might make them less intrusive.

[Lon Howard]

Well it seems I still don't have image posting figured out yet ... I'll work on it tomorrow.

[Lon Howard]

Should have done the same to the ones in the foreground on the left too

[selig1656]

Nice, yet the face does not appear to be sharp enough.

[selig1656]

I like the monochrome as for me it accents the girl along with the cropping. For his purpose of emphasizing the array of colors a different angle might have helped as to draw the attention away from her and more on the garments and their colors.