>>2839872Nothing, just ignore them. If you think you can reason with the kind of people who threaten strangers on the street you are just asking for trouble. I don't understand why the rules change when you are taking pictures. If you look at someone and they start yelling at you and threaten to beat you up do you also have to explain to them why you were looking at them? If you are walking and you bump into someone and they threaten to beat you up do you have to explain why you were walking?
Worse than people who scream at strangers on the street are photographers who set a bad precedent for other photographers. See:
>>2839880>>2839886>>2840543So someone confronts you and you proceed to act nice and cool while you explain to them what you're doing. So now that person and everyone around them expects every single photographer to do the exact same thing. Same goes for people who get mad and talk down to people who try to confront photographers. Even worse are the photographers who tell people they look beautiful/interesting and that they really wanted to take their picture. If you don't care about other photographers than that perfectly fine, do whatever gives you the outcome you want. Otherwise just stop making it worse for everyone else and keep walking. You are just setting a terrible example. Why waste your time with the less 1% of people who don't know how to behave just because you are taking pictures?
The only person in this thread who has good advice is:
>>2840307Worse case scenario have your camera handy to defend yourself. That is why I prefer metal film cameras. I'm looking into getting a nice tripod too.
TL;DR If you don't ignore people who confront you you are making it harder on yourself and everyone else.
