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I think that you could have had something interesting here. I think before COVID, the advice would have been to get a wide wide lens, and get closer on the left there. Get a higher angle to separate the subject from the boats and the water in the background, and more of a side on angle, so you had a chance of maybe catching a decisive moment.
Now that COVID is a thing, a more telephoto approach might have been more advisable, which might have been better at a lower angle, but the same thing about getting around to the side and waiting for a decisive moment would have still applied.
Thank you for the feedback.
I do have several angles and hesitated with the higher angle indeed.
Your point about Covid is interesting; I didn't think about it, but it's true that we extended the "safe" zone.
It's something that I think a lot about. Before the pandemic there were times when I was shooting with a 180° fisheye, so I was like RIGHT on top of my subjects, but I would often shoot with a 35 or 50. Since the pandemic started, I haven't shot street with anything shorter than 85. I feel like COVID really changed the math on risk assessments, and that, in combination with face detection and the general deanonymization of street photography, really changes the whole genre going forward, in terms of technique and law.