The Weekly Street Photography Thread #7 02/05/2025

Miyajima Island, Japan.
Street at night

There are so many details, a very nice detail of life.

Food food, glorious food and beautiful shot.

This documentary and storytelling piece is beautiful. I particularly like the composition, the subject separation is really good, and the subtle colours bring a strong sense of contrast between the cages and the fisherman.

It is a funny composition, the statue and the man brings a nice juxtaposition.

It does not have to be captured this week, you can submit from any date.
You captured strong body languages of your subjects nicely.

The couple made me chuckle.

Your composition enhances a very nice colour palette.

This is a photo that catches my attention.
Why did people throw their things on the ground?
What are they celebrating together?

Love the lighting that leaves everything above the awnings in the dark, and the perspective of the curve in the street diminishing around to the right is very effective.

That's a nice triptych effect. The darker exterior with the lit interior has the exposures about right so that we feel like a potential diner peering in and thinking about making a decision to enter. The doorhandles suggest it will be an expensive meal.

The bright yellow trap gets our initial attention and then the orange creates an easy circular clockwise composition line. We take in the trap, then the men working, then the piles of traps, then the boats and the bay. The story is created.
It's all relaxed and comfortable.

I checked the statue. He was called "The Wise" but there were no clues as to how he got the reputation.
Worlds apart.

You'll get the hang of settings for street photography. A bit of subject movement is usually felt to be OK in helping with the feeling of activity. Having the menu in focus would be good in giving some information about the place as this is often important in setting the scene.
I'm not a big fan of square format but most people would disagree. I'd have drawn more attention to the pose of the woman on the right by giving more emohasis to the vertical lines in the shot- by cropping out the right hand edge in far enough to remove the right hand stool and from the left to just keep the downpipe in.

The rectangles of the windows plus the rectangles on the paving plus the squatting man's positioning on some important intersection, all feel as though there is a significant sum total of the parts. But I can't find it. The title hints at an interpretation that I feel I'm not getting either.
I'll try to come back to this.

Yes.
This is precisely how streets feel at night in small Japanese towns. Generally, I might have felt that the figures were too far away, but not in his shot. It's the emptiness of the streets, the warmth of the lights and signs and woodwork that comes through. If the figures had been bigger, they would have become the subjects.
A photo that makes me nostalgic.

Agreed. Are there a couple of quite different things happening here? The red/blue clad group look like football supporters but I'm mystified by whatever they are looking at. The girl with the pink hat and her friend with the upraised arm, seem to be involved with another activity?