Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey- Permission aside, there seems to be a generally negative attitude towards shooting "from the hip" (or basically without raising a camera to your eye). What's wrong with clandestine photography? I'm in the middle of a documentary project on student EMTs. I have permission from the whole class and the instructors. Some of the students, however, clam up and act funny when I raise my camera (even my Leica M6 which is so small, so quiet, "looks like a toy", etc. etc.). Here are two VERY preliminary photos which I shot without raising my camera. The first one is full-frame, the second is cropped: http://www.drbphoto.com/leica/l6/ I still have several weeks of shooting left, and as I get to know my subjects better, hopefully the tense ones will relax in front of the lens. If they don't, I have no qualms about pressing the shutter while the camera is around my neck, on the table, while I'm pretending to screw with the settings, etc. Am I wrong? - --Dan - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@pacbell.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] As The World Turns > Austin 747 > > Don't ask me that question, I didn't bring up Starbucks. Security > classified places aside, I take the pictures if I am allowed to go > there. > > Jerry > > Austin Franklin wrote: > > > Jerry, > > > > I wasn't aware that "corporate policy" dictated legality, or even customs? > > Besides, how do you know the student didn't ask Starbucks for permission, > > which in fact, may have been the point of the "exercise"? It gave them > > experience on asking for access. > > > > Austin > > > > > BD > > > > > > First you say that you have never done that, then you encourage > > > your students to do just that. Isn't there an English word for that, > > > besides "catspaw". It starts with an "H" and ends in a "Y". :-) > > > > > > Jerry > > > > > > bdcolen wrote: > > > > > > > Good points, Jeffrey. And there are very few places - "national > > > > security" aside - where you can't eventually work out a way to take > > > > photos if your are serious about what you're doing, and have a > > > > legitimate reason for photographing. > > > > > > > > I remember a long discussion on this list about the impossibility of > > > > shooting inside Starbucks. Couldn't be done, people said. It's against > > > > corporate policy, they said. Starbucks sucks, they said. Which is why I > > > > challenged one of my students to do a project on a day at Starbucks - > > > > http://web.mit.edu/21w.749/www/Students/aaronmihalik/finalproject/ > > > > > > > > Starbucks isn't a "cat house," but the principle is the same. ;-) > > > > > > > > B. D. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html