I thought this had a nostalgic feel to it. The girl on the left looks like someone straight from the 50's, esp. with the rolled up trouser bottoms (the sign above her head helps reinforce this old feel). The title may have hurt me a bit. The two gentlemen in the pic were talking and joking with one another as they walked toward me. This was a totally spontaneous shot from the hip. A lucky catch. The only cleanup was some rotation, cropping, and sharpening.
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The technicals: Perhaps one of the limiting factors of this shot is that you were shooting in bright sunlight toward the sun (well, not directly toward, you can see the sun is on the left). This darkens all three of our subjects which hurts the shot. Focus is good. Sharpness is a bit soft, but not a big deal.
The feel: OK, so this is my take on street photography. (My opinion only.) Street photography should do one of a few things: 1) capture the human condition either through an interesting scene or through the facial expressions captured in an everyday occurance. 2) capture nostalgia 3) capture an interesting geometric pattern (meaning the photo has abstract qualitites) which rises above the photo as a whole. Your shot is an attempt at 1. We have faces in the shot which is a good start, but the shadowing which I mentioned before along with their relatively small size keeps us from really "feeling" any of them.
The game: There is a point where the 640 pixel size of the canvas actually changes how you would compose a shot. Because of our limited canvas, I may have tried to crop closer to allow the faces to be physically larger. This may not be necessary at all in an 8x10 print. I think ultimately it was the dark subjects which hurt you the most.
damn your hip sure knows how to frame a shot, you should let him take the shots more often...just kidding :) Actually, i would have thought walking around town using this technique might have yielded a bit more interesting angles. this almost looks like you took it normally, perhaps that's a good trait to have in your "hip shots"
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