This isn't really Street Photography. This is my wife Terri posing outside the library in our local village. I was trying get to get a look of someone waiting for the library to open. Looking back I should have pinned a sign up saying "closed" or "back in 5 mins" or something.
The villiage of Puhoi has it's own website here (but it's not the best looking site in the world!) This is a working library but it's never been open when I've been around so I guess it opens for a couple of hours during the weekdays and that's it! The building itself is very old and not much bigger than a single car garage.
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Compositionally, I like the shot and think it has a balanced, stable feeling to it. The perspective of the building makes it have a surreal feeling to it, and that just kind of adds to the feeling of the shot, I think. To see a library that small, and you expect that it should be much larger, so it all seems a bit unreal. The only thing I would suggest is to move your model to the other side of the door frame. That would get her out of the almost exact center of the shot.
Technically, I like the colors, focus, and exposure. The sky is a bit "too much" and is almost too bright to feel real, but it is still pretty.
Overall, it is an interesting shot, and I suspect that it wasn't quite "streety" enough for most people.
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