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Palanquera- Fruit Vendor+RPost

by Richard Sandor

Gallery: POP PhotosPosted April 29, 2016175 views4 comments
Palanqueras or fruit vendors can be seen in the old town section of Cartagena, Colombia. I bought some fruit from the lady and asked if I could take her photo. She agreed. I took some of her posed against a wall, but preferred this one as it portrayed her activity and showed the colorful neighborhood as well. Taken with an Olympus E-M1, 12-40 lens, 1/400, f/3.5 and ISO 400. C&C welcome. Richard

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4 comments
Comment posted by Sandra M. Apel on May 1, 2016 at 10:21 PM
Richard, the photo journalist intent here is good. The bright colors, neighborhood scene OOF describes the setting just enough and the detail of the fruit lady with her wares tells the story.  Suggest cropping differently so that she is  not cut off at the neck as it appears to me. The fruit could be sharpened a tad or perhaps DOF stopped down. 
 
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on May 3, 2016 at 7:37 PM
Richard,

Terrific image of color and culture; indeed nice photo journalism.

Agree with Sandra's comments. To add, I wanted to mention there is a couple of strange transitions between colors in the left background.  the woman holding the pink material and the guy with the blue shirt.  Not sure what's happening, if it's from the lense and shooing wide open, or if something in processing.  Not a big deal, just an observation.

Love the colors!
 
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Comment posted by Richard Sandor on May 4, 2016 at 8:07 PM
Sandra and Lon: thanks for looking and commenting. Can't do anything about the fruit lady as I shot it that way as she was a moving  target. Thanks for noticing the color transitions which I did not. I've addressed them as best I could in CS6. Richard
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Comment posted by Reno DiTullio on May 12, 2016 at 12:27 AM
Richard, the repost is a beauty, love the focus on the basket of fruit, great colors.  Congrats on the EP.
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