Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now if the lady had said NO, she did not want you shooting her at her stall, then what? How do you go about getting a release after you just gave her a line about shooting some building behind her? :-) Francesco At 09:21 PM 12/1/98 , Ted Grant wrote: >Harrison wrote: > >>No, It was probably the fact that YOU were not self conscious about >>what you were doing. If you feel uncomfortable and you feel like you >>are doing something wrong then who ever you are photographing will >>probably feel the same way.>>>>>> > >Harrison, > >Right on the mark!!!!!! I've done like you and Jim Brick on many an >occasion, stand your ground and just go on shooting or implying you are >shooting and folks just go on with their life. But if you give any hint >that you are doing something nefarious or you give any feeling of >insecurity, you are going to have people on your case! > >Yep sometimes there are other things as this comment from Chandos: > ><<I tried to photograph an extraordinary head of red hair in a So Ho flea >market. Just wanted the hair. The subject turned as I depressed the >shutter, glared, and instructed her boyfriend to beat me up.>>>>>> > >Sure you are going to run into this and the best thing to do is stay cool! >And quickly engage them in conversation and try sweet talking them into >letting you take the picture. But do not become embroiled in verbal >confrontation. > >Be nice, smile, be humble and if that doesn't work, just say, "Sorry, I >didn't mean to upset you, maybe another time." And walk away. Hopefully the >"boy friend" doesn't want to beat you on the head. > >That being the case, he does want to, "YOU SHOULD ALWAYS OBEY RULE NO. 2:______ > >" Always wear very good running shoes and never carry more gear than you >can run as fast as you can!" :) > >Besides the M6 looks like a P&S and if you do not look like a serious >threat or anything untoward threatening to the subject, it's amazing how >close you can work. Of course if you stand right there in their face and >"YOU" become as annoying as a fly, folks are going to get on you. > >Know your gear better than you know your name, work quickly and quietly and >if you are caught taking the picture do not duck away like you were doing >something wrong. > >Stand right there and put the camera up again and maybe again, but each >time you do.....completely avoid eye contact!!!!! And look beyond the >subject and only at them when the camera is at your eye. > >Why you can even walk a little closer and kinda look past them or use body >language indicating that you are looking past them. This makes them think >even though the camera is pointed at them, you are actually shooting >something behind them. Some will even turn around sometimes and look to see >what's behind them. > >Hell I've had people come over to me after I've been standing there >shooting them and yet never looked at them in real eye contact, asking what >I was taking their picture for. I calmly respond with, "Oh sorry I wasn't >taking your picture, but if you look right over there, here look through >the camera and you can see the building I was shooting, cool isn't it?" > >And before they realize it say, "Oh by the way seeing you are here would >you mind if I snapped a couple of you at your stall?" Smile and kind of >indicate a move in the direction of where you would like to do a "happy >snap" if nothing else. > > Man but you have to be "COOL BIG TIME!" Give off any scent you are lying >or putting them on and you are in big time s....t! > >So I've never felt that I needed to hang the camera around my neck with >wide angle lens and do Hail Mary's at any time. I very nearly always had >confidence in myself that I could do much better standing there and doing >my thing with camera to my one good eye!. :) > >You have to really like other human beings and make them feel comfortable >at what you are doing, trust me it works. Smile a lot and exude friendly! >:) > >ted > > > > >Ted Grant >This is Our Work. The Legacy of Sir William Osler. >http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant >