The Weekly Street Photography Thread #8 09/05/2025

A stray cat , a stray dog and a lucky dog :) Good catch...

Great catch. Would be even better with a bit more space at the sides, maybe by being a bit further right and closer to the wall, a more acute view. easy to talk after the event.

Fantastic shot - love the reflected curves and asches.

Works quite well for me. If only they'd been wearing clothes for hotter weather!

Yes, a cool shot with humour, which I always appreciate in Street photography.

Agree. Actually, lowering the exposure slightly might make it even better?

The image works as is, but you could try lowering the exposure fairly significantly. I imagine that if the shadow side was close to pure black it would look really good. The brickwork could be made invisible by doing so, or at least just faint suggestions, and the writing on the posters should still be visible. Darkening the right side would help to make it less busy as well.

Indeed, two very different dog’s lives!
I like the people being headless, as their faces would immediately attract attention away from the dogs.
The dog’s head on the yellow line attracts the eye to the dog and its situation.

Ha! Ha! Shame he didn’t win, although I hope that isn’t a bag of golf clubs alongside him…

You have captured the way the buildings are often cheaply and simply built out of necessity, but still contain elegant decorative features, such as the ornamented pillars and wrought ironwork.
The women with their umbrellas complete the scene perfectly. An umbrella in England or Germany is to protect against an excess of rain, so it is nice to see them to protect against excess sunshine!

I’d like to go to Kyoto. Here we see something different from the cliché of cherry blossom and temples, something more ordinary and refreshing.

I’ll join you for that, if you don’t mind.

I agree with Fireplace that there is something appealing about him appearing from the darkness, framed by all those railings. The way he is carrying the tray, he seems to be holding the simits out to the viewer.

I like the thin vertical format, with brightly coloured skirt at the top. It causes the eye to travel over the crossing towards the colour.

The concentration really makes this photo.
I also like the square of pink lights mirroring her phone case.

Hard at work while waiting for the ferry in the afternoon

I'm not a street photographer. In the slightest. Not one bit. I took this the other night walking back to our apartment though. Near impossible not to get busted as the strange round eye, even when hiding in the dark. Oh well :)

This is more my thing as far as street photography.

Wonderful tones, contrast and good focus. An amusing subject !

I think you made a very subtle panning movement that worked quite well. The subject is sharply in focus and the background is well-defined yet nicely blurred. I believe it's a technically successful shot.

It’s a clear and sharp photo of a daily life scene—the big man looks interesting. Perhaps you could try an alternative composition from a different angle. I'm curious about your workflow and post-processing steps.

I had a quick look just to be sure, and I did run that file through PureRaw. Nothing fancy, just the original Version 1.6, so no AI or anything like that. My post processing is nothing fancy or high tech in the least, I normally I just use Silkypix Developer Studio Pro, but I'm on holidays with absolutely no hurry at all, so been running a few night shots through PureRaw.
From there I run the dng's through either Silkypix or an older version of Adobe Elements Camera raw (Elements in this case) because I can then use the Panasonic photo styles. Which I really like. I shoot Natural photo style, as it gives me the least molested raw data to view in the EVF, so I can just my exposure nicely. For later raw development. Save the file in jpeg, and resize/sharpen in Silkypix.
Because I find Silkypix much faster and easier to use than farting around with different layers etc in the Elements photoshop styled interface. Yeah, I know most people hate Silkypix, I'm a big fan. It's just a little bit different than Adobe products. I think most people who try it wig out over the different terminology used, & can't get their head around it.
And that's about it. Nothing fancy or intensive, just simple & straightforward.
I think that even the 24MP S5 classic can give astonishing results, with a little bit of help from the likes of PureRaw. Even ISO 12800 in the dark can look quite good. I'll throw up a couple of samples

I think that's quite astonishing really. Maybe I'm easily pleased? Anyway, happy shooting :)