Friday Market

[robgasm]

The friday market, in Ras Al Khaimah. One of many photos taken for my gcse photography project, which i took on holiday. More to follow, but I took over 1200 in 6 days there, so it will take me a while to sift through. Its kinda a photojournalistic view, in this section at least, looking at work (and lack of) in RAK. Yes, I have many a photo of people sleeping on the job Hahah.

This place was interesting, there were basically 4 stalls, carpets, plants, fruits, and woodwork, except each was replicated to form about a 200m stretch of shops both sides of the road. Infact, later on I walked past two more people in nearly exactly the same pose :lol:

Exif data is in the file, if you use firefox with exif viewer or whatever, but its K100D with 18-55 Kit.

Location was here roughly. I think, I'm not too sure, my parents were driving.


I looked around for some pentax gear, but I didnt find any stores while I was there (I didnt hunt for specific photography shops or anything, I shouldve researched before I went). All I could find was canikon and sigma with canikon mounts, but the prices were about 50% of here

[cC.Aleksander]

I like it With the mountains in tha bg and the long row of stands And so sharp

[Papa]

It's a shame it wasn't a different time of day. I love this shot and I think with the mountains in the BG it's amazing. However the shadows on the booths really kill a lot of it for me. There are so many vibrant colors with the fruit, flags and balloons, it really sucks to have them darkened in the shade.

Pretty cool though I wanna see more.
I wanna hear more about this gcse photography project

[robgasm]

PRG, you shouldve seen it before I edited a bit, dark shadows :|
This is probably the most edited photo thats gonna be in the project, I wana keep it natural and straight outa camera kinda.

Its just a project on the area I visited, focussing on people working (and in a few cases, not working )
then there are subsections in it on certain objects
photographs of gas stations (inspired by Ed Ruscha)
photographs of satellites (there was a large abundance, even wooden shacks with no roof, had a satellite stuck on the wall, if not three XD)
photographs of electricity pylons ( again, alot. Also, running very close to houses and roads, unlike here in the uk).

Yeahhh
thats bout it