@HGF Your picture tells a simple story of ?? trying to make it “dramatic” results (perhaps) in changing that story, although there may actually be a real drama unfolding or this is just a clean-up after a real drama, the photo can never tell us, only the two workers could have done that!
It is a picture of a moment in time when you were there and took it, why does there have to be more?
The picture is probably what I would have taken and you were focussing on the workers and the rest (context) got into the photo by “accident” but once there they are part of the story.
The bike appears to be padlocked to the lamppost.
Is the barrier a temporary one or has it been there for some time?
What are they washing so intently and why?
I don’t do much street photography but when I do it is normally the parts of the scene I captured by accident that I find particularly interesting.
@Wlodek your update was a little extreme in retrieving the outline. As for criticism I am sorry if I gave “offence” but I actually prefer the original image in its entirety and in colour, it is as simple as that.
My “prejudice” with (not) cropping images and also (not) rendering them in black and white is something I will have to live with and occasionally inflict upon others, as in this case.
This is a picture I took earlier this year , it reminds me of an unusually sunny day early in the year and the “grandeur” of nature as it begins to wake up (and the inadequacy of DxPL Chromatic Aberration?)
Black & White does something to it but I am not entirely sure that it is good and it is certainly “false”, i.e. it is not what I saw and not what I photographed and certainly not street photography so no interesting extraneous elements!
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As for street photography, still uncropped and in colour, a visit to Brighton to the Theatre Royal provided an opportunity to take the GX 9 and a tiny zoom lens for a day out, these are a few images from that day.
Some street “art”
but you never know who is actually watching you, or saw you with the camera!
or who you might photograph by accident
This photo was simply one of the street (which used to be a leather shop where I bought leather during my belt making days) taken before we went to lunch and I couldn’t be bothered to wait for the gentleman to clear the scene!
We then saw him twice (actually a lot more than twice) after lunch, during the comedy we had come to see at the Theatre Royal, i.e. Neil Pearson in “Drop the Dead Donkey - The Re-Awakening” and while I was waiting for my wife outside the front of the theatre I saw him looking for someone and recognised him but was not so obvious as to take a picture of him.
My wife then came out of the theatre and saw him and congratulated him on the play!
When I checked my photos the following day I realised I had inadvertently taken a picture of him at the back of the theatre before lunch, i.e. before the performance!
. Here is my “counter-joke”, showing how to isolate subject using extreme ‘Unsharp mask’, DP negative ‘Force details’, and some blur. Unfortunately, I’m too lazy to use ‘Local Adjustments’ to make the picture look even better (yet another joke, to be sure).
Framing, tonality, composition, story telling - what’s not to like.