Posts: Graham Smith | Ugly Hedgehog

shockwild wrote:

Welcome to UHH, like your shots. You'll get good feedback from people here, keep posting!!!

Thanks for the welcome. I'll certainly keep posting.
Feedback? I don't mind if it's good or bad as long as it's fair :-)

Jul 4, 2013 14:48:53 #

philo wrote:

those are the settings I would have used.
the only other thing that I would try is to crop #2 and try to get rid of some of the people on the side. The guy with the bird could fill up the image.
Nice work.

Thanks.
To crop tight to the gentleman would have made the picture into something I was not trying to achieve. I was there to capture the environment and atmosphere of the poultry sale.

Jul 4, 2013 14:30:16 #

ravenglass wrote:

Great pics I love number 1 keep them coming and welcome to UHH

Thanks. And the pictures will keep coming :-)

Jul 4, 2013 14:28:44 #

philo wrote:

In number one your lighting is perfect.
in number two I would open my lens to f4 or what ever is your lowest. This would blur our your background and really make the old man POP

Thanks.

Number two was shot with a 35mm f2 lens at 1/100 f2.5 iso 800
It's in the exif. The lighting is poor in these markets.

Number one was with a 70 200 f2.8 at f2.8

Jul 4, 2013 13:19:02 #

wonkytripod wrote:

Very nice shots, which market was it?
:thumbup: :thumbup:

Thanks.
It was Melton Mowbray Livestock Market. And, yes I did have a pork pie from the excellent farmers market held on the same day :-)

Jul 3, 2013 12:09:06 #

Bwarn wrote:

Love the shots, as for the first my eyes were instantly drawn to the men and noticed the detail in the face of the man facing. Love it, I feel you caught the essence of the market. 2 men talking about the quality of the livestock or sharing farming techniques. One could go on. Love them.

Thank you.

Jul 3, 2013 11:40:28 #

JR1 wrote:

Want honesty, well you will get it here especially from me.

You have captured the essence of the market, I would like to see a crop to the first to los the empty top left corner as your eye is drawn to the bright metal when it should be the brightly lit men, why oh why oh why did you not stand there taking 20 or so of the great chap with the poor birds, but good shot

Thanks for the honesty, it's appreciated and taken on board. Being honest I might not agree ;-)

As to the chap with the chicks, why would I want to limit myself to 20 shots, I have about 30.

Graham.

Jul 3, 2013 11:16:03 #

At a local livestock auction.
It's my first posts here and I would appreciate any comments or criticism.

Nikon D700