elxen

nice setup and it made me smile

I don't see why a staged picture would be wrong...it's photography and photography has many ways. You may have your particular likings but in judging a picture, a particular liking is not relevant. Good arguments are. Nor do I understand why a title can't be combined with a picture. An image combined with a title is a specific choice and can make us look at the picture is some other way. Although I don't like the title...too literal imo. And I agree that it would have been better to see it bigger.

Nice job

But I do like the picture. It has a nice mood to it.

If you cropped it, there would be no more balance between the 'dark' part and the 'light' part....the balance, however, is the only thing that appeals to me in this picture.

If cropped, it'd loose the only thing I like about it

this is a very suggestive photograph.

just wauw :)

very nice indeed

only a minor comment: maybe the whole hand would've been even better

nice picture

maybe a little bit less contrast would show more detail in the trousers/hair and give it a more natural feeling?

hehe, I think this is a very funny shot :-)

nice, very nice

apart from the fact that this is really a great shot :-)

(I would not take out the other bird and the DOF is perfect)

I wonder if there could be a point in discussing the fact of vertical vs horizontal framing.

Would it have made this photo even better if a horizontal framing was used?

lovely composition

but IMHO the kind of 'raster' on her face is troublesome and there is too much contrast....

don't know exactly why but it made my smile

nice idea, nice colors

nice capture! :)

i think the b/w version is better than the colored one

5/6

nice shot!

(ps: long lenses are baaaad :) )

very nice perspective

a human aspect at the end of the 'tunnel' would have made this picture even better

I agree with amar

It's a very nice shot but vertical framing is IMHO not the best choice here. but that's the only 'critical' remark I can make here :)

nice

this is very very well done

nice capture, nice framing (not completely sure about the contrast)

but i like it very much

I think this is a very nice composition. But in my knowledge and to my feeling this picture has too much contrast....

nonetheless, it's very attractive!

hehe

looks like a bride waving her flowers

or is it just time to find me a shrink :)

this is really a great shot! 7/7

no need to crop!

First of all, congrats with this nice capture....it made me smile instantly.... and in street photography the emotion it evokes is more important than composition! (not that composition is unimportant)

You'll definitely find pictures of Arbus wich aren't that perfect on the composition matter either.

I'd also like to comment on the following:

"if it is a picture of a STRANGER then I am inclined to add my agreement (to some extent) with the point about the danger of diminishing the dignity of a CLEARLY RECOGNISABLE person"

I don't see in any way how the dignity is/can be diminished. If you are a dignified person how can a picture take away your dignity?

Furthermore street photography is likely to take pictures of STRANGERS.........logic?

Also, a lot of famous street photographers took pictures of strangers, even when they weren't allowed to (and pictures that were 'heavier' than this one) (e.g. elliot erwitt, weegee).....

I once did the test and posted a picture of a very famous photographer.....the ratings were lower than most of the pictures I made (and my pics aren't that good cos I only started shooting less than a year ago)

anyway, bravo for this nice shot (it obviously doesn't get its strenght out of the compostion)

nice street picture

the only minor thing that bothers me a bit is the light-stroke hitting the head

nice cropping (and removing the wire)

much better.....really like this picture!!