More Street Shots

[KaPOWitsCHRIS]

So a while ago I attempted some street photography, I put too many in this thread though. Anyways, I tried some of the advice I was given and here are the results.

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[PhotoWrangler]

Nicely done. I enjoyed them.

 

[tirediron]

#s 1 & 3 are very good, IMO, but #2 lacks because we can't see any faces. Nice street shots.

 

[The_Traveler]

There are three questions that a street photographer should ask of themselves
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What am I seeing that makes me take this picture?
Why am I processing it this way?
What do I want people to get from this picture?

I can't intuit the answers for the first two pictures.
In the first, I see a guy looking at a newspaper and don't get any more out of it than that.
In the second, there are two people, faces hidden, putting something in a mailbox.

The third has some possibilities, I think.
Viewers get hints from where the photographer places things in the frame, what is close to the edge, what is in focus, etc - and the success of a picture depends on how the photographer uses how people see to manage their expectations.

In the original image, nothing is in important spots (the thirds), there is a lot of space up top, the crowd is included completely (implying that it is important) and it is almost in focus, the acrobat's foot is semi-obscured by the crowd.
It is not obvious what we should be looking at - because the picture is giving confusing hints.

If you crop this so that the space is taken off and the crowd is clipped a bit, that gives a hint that the crowd isn't important.
The cropping elevates the shadow to the thirds and it becomes the focal point - and it is the interesting, and most clearly visible part of the image.

Do your post processing to make the hints the viewer gets seem coherent.