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I find it somewhat difficult to provide any directed meaningful critique without having some idea of what the photographer wants to convey by the image, (e.g. is it just a graphical image where form and color is at play, is the main aspect the interplay with the mirror images in the glass and what’s inside the tram, or shall it depict the life of commuting, or …).
As I see the image now, I’m a little confused and my eyes just wander around, (which may sometimes be a good thing with an image).
We normally tend to read an image in the same direction as we read text. So when I start from left I see the rails that have no clear visual connection to the rest of the image but rather leads out of the image back to the left side (Danmarksplass, I think?). Then further to the right there is the black/yellow sign which catches attention by both its strong color and contrast and as I perceive it as text (which always strongly draws attention), but I don’t know how it is meant to function in the image. Then there is the strong red color stripe on the roof, (which in my mind doesn’t play together with the yellow), red being a color that normally also catches attention.
And then there is the rest of the tram, outside and inside, the latter being quite unclear and cluttered with the mirror images, so I find it hard to relate to any of the persons – perhaps with the exception of the strongly lighted person looking out at the left end, which make me wonder why the right half of the image is there at all.
So all in all I’m mostly left with the impression that you should have used a little more than half a second before pressing the shutter. (Bergen is such a scenic town, that I would have thought that you might have found some more interesting environment for a tram shot than the underside of a motorway.)
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Thanks. I tried to capture a colorful city in motion image but it didn’t go there. Thanks for taking the time though.