I should have said it would have been cooler without the hard shadows. As it is, I find them a minor distraction. I still like the shot. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis Nature Photography [mailto:YDavis@hkg.odn.ne.jp] > > Gregory Fraser <Gregory.Fraser@pwgsc.gc.ca> wrote/replied to: > > >Achal Pashine (Fruit Seller, Western India) - Would have > been cooler without the flash but its still a cool shot as it > is. I like the shape of the vendor's body and the repeating > circles bounded by the blue box placed slanty in the image. > > I'm not going to defend this photo, but I think in this situation > without flash, this photo would have been very dull and dark. I'd have > backed off the flash using negative flash compensation myself though. > But of course many amateur cameras don't have this ability. > > The idea with flash is to use it so that it appears you did not use it > :-) > > > Jim Davis > Nature Photography > http://www.kjsl.com/~jbdavis/ > Reply in plain text only please! > > >