Well, Bloke's right. It would have been better if I'd been able to take a step backward with my 50mm prime, but from what I've seen, Bloke doesn't do street, so he doesn't realize how long you have to compose and shoot...
Hi RSL,
Yes you are right, I now prefer to shoot landscapes, but I have done street photography and still do, so I do realise how ridiculously hard it is to get it right. I also have a 50mm prime, which is a superb lens but much harder to use than the 24-105 zoom which is my preferred walk around lens, but I do still use the "Nifty Fifty" (see example images). Although I find with the 50mm that you have to get into the right state of mind and be prepared to keep on your toes and move around and smile a lot.
But as I say, your shot really is excellent and believe me I am not criticising it and would have been very happy to have taken it myself, because I know with street photography you have to shoot it as you see it when you see it, but the frame crop through the feet does make a difference, as you yourself agree.
BTW, the one with the little girl chewing a lolly you might not think is a street shot, but believe me it is, because I actually took it by sticking my lens (the 50) through an open window into a printers workshop, as I was walking by, I had already seen the shot out of the corner of my eye, so went back for a second time and grabbed it.
Photobloke
