I decided to try making a review to only one picture. I choose Trevor's Russian market vendor because I myself did many images in places like this. I looked at this photo and tried to analyse it not only for Trevor who do seldom people shots but also for myself, in order to understand what good and what bad and to learn for my future images. When I first look at this image my attention is going to: 1.shirt of the lady, 2.some bright objects on a vertical line close to the center of the image, 3.Two beautiful illuminated transparent jars. After those outstanding objects I see the lady face and some fish baskets that she probably sell. Farther look reveal two interesting but not outstanding things: 1. Smiley faces on posters at the upper left corner. Those faces can "speak" with the lady face. 2. A (girl ?) hand with a bowl full of something look like garlic heads at the bottom left corner. I'll come back to this part in a minute. Now lets look on it technically: Trevor told us about limited lighting and a variety of color. Both things are true but I don't think he took or exhibit this image just for those elements The *focus* is on the lady's shirt although other parts are quite sharp. *Exposure* - Trevor skillfully used a ray of light coming from above to emphasize the main objects. The matrix system of his camera made optimization for all parts of the frame but gave the biggest importance, again, to the lady's shirt. Unfortunately the lady's face lack a little. So the exposure and focus both make the lady's shirt the most prominent thing in the frame. *Composition* - The main figure sit on the left third vertical. Her left hand ( on the right side of the image) give a good "flow" toward the illuminated jars and together make a "flow line" coming down from the lady's high illuminated shoulder through her hand to the jars. At the right side of the image we see a vertical bar that "close" the image. This is not a good "close" and would be better if cropped or not include in the frame. This image is for sure not based on its composition and not need to. Now - What is important in this image, or why Trevor took it ? I think he wanted to show us the lady in her surround and the goods she sell. In that manner it was better if she was looking at the fish baskets but life is always more complicated and interesting! Something is coming from the left outside of the frame - The (girl's) hand and bowl - remember ? This something took the attention of the lady ...and of me too! I want to see more of this figure! Maybe not including the right side bar could be enough for including more of this figure but I'm not sure. I also want to see more brightly the poster faces from behind! This is hard to achieve. Maybe +1/3 stop would do good to the lady face as well to those behind faces. Maybe Photoshop can help here too. For summary: I feel that using a little bit wider lens which would widen the frame to the bottom and to the left side (+ a little shift to the left) could give more space around the lady showing us on what is she sitting (hover in the space), more of the fish baskets and of course the left side figure. I like the two jars so I wouldn't crop out more than the vertical bar. Thank you Trevor for sharing this photo and all other exhibitors as well. Hope this help Pini Vollach
