>>3022917>Bump I'm attempting street photography, for the first time, tomorrow and would like pointersHere's your lesson:
If you live in a town that is not a metro, you're fucked. Period. I don't care if your town has a "downtown." If the streets aren't crowded enough where you can just blend into a crowd, people will immediately notice your camera and either be on guard or resent having their pic taken.
You're better off in places like that of either sitting still and using a telephoto so long no one notices you (which defeats the purpose of using something like a 50mm or 24-70, or outright asking permission of people like shopkeepers or street vendors. Average folk in a town of say 100,000 where you're not constantly passing people on the street and everybody knows everybody are just far more likely to flip out in my experience because they're not used to the kind of random shit that can happen on *real* streets in metro areas like NYC or LA or Atlanta, Seattle, etc...
So you really have two options: Overt, or covert. If you go overt, most people will be on guard and you won't be getting natural shots - although in my experience people are less likely to freak out because they are more likely to see it coming. If you go covert, you're more likely to get natural pictures, but if / when people notice you, they will flip the fuck out because you covertly took a picture. Get it?
In a place like NYC or something, there's so many fucking people you can just pause, snap, and move on - people forget about you as soon as you're out of view. But when they can see you coming with your camera all the way down the block on a small town street, it's a very different story.
And don't fucking be this guy walking around jamming a flash gun in little old lady's faces...there are fucking better ways:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkIWW6vwrvMGo ahead and be prepared for confrontation, no matter what you do. It will happen. A lot.
