/p/ - Photography » Thread #3088081

[42 / 4 / ?]

74KiB, 700x997, FB_IMG_1494345256929.jpg

Shooting without being noticed (tips about not pissing off people while trying to shoot)

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 01:26:52 No.3088081 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>3088165 >>3088277 >>3088303 >>3088331 >>3089033 >>3091175 >>3091453

I live in the middle east and want to start shooting some pictures as a hobby but, I cant shoot anything because people are really aggressive toward being photographed (even if you are not photographing them)
also, I unfortunately am going to be shooting with my phone ( Can't afford buying a decent camera right now)

*this is not a rant about people in the middle east being aggressive (I am middle eastern myself) so please don't bring it up*

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 01:30:49 No.3088084 Report

Quoted By:

your best bet is to travel. Middle eastern people are really aggressive and I'd hate to see one of our own beheaded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 01:37:56 No.3088090 Report

Quoted By:

>take a selfie stick
>pretend you are taking a selfie

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 01:47:43 No.3088095 Report

Quoted By:

Just don't be an autist with a tele lens and you should be fine. People generally don't like the sound of mirrors flapping, so think about getting a point and shoot like a Leica, Fuji or Ricoh GR if you're poor.

Poopooman !yUwmn6l67k

Poopooman !yUwmn6l67k Sat 03 Jun 2017 06:08:48 No.3088165 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088081
Is it because photography is haram?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 11:59:14 No.3088277 Report

Quoted By: >>3088279

>>3088081
kill yourself sand nigger

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 12:12:31 No.3088279 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088277
kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 13:33:36 No.3088303 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088081
>aggressive toward being photographed (even if you are not photographing them)
??????

So you want to to be a faggot with a phone taking random pics? You can't earn respect from people for your art if you are just walking around taking a picture with a fucking phone and editing them with some free-to-use app and uploading them to Instagram. What do you want to say with your pictures?
Also, I too get anxious when I see somebody with a phone pointing at me because there is a big chance that you'll end up in somebody's YT channel or snapchat

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 03 Jun 2017 14:59:58 No.3088331 Report

Quoted By: >>3088829

>>3088081
I live in the southeastern United States and people are the same. I recently went to a flea market and got several dirty looks and one guy even asked me to delete a picture

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 1481206716430.jpg, 405KiB, 695x546

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 10:22:27 No.3088829 Report

Quoted By: >>3088859 >>3088953 >>3088991 >>3089052 >>3089386 >>3089416 >>3089550

>>3088331
View it that way, you don't have the right to take pictures of strangers. Imagine you are going your way minding your own business and some random dude starts taking pictures of you. What would you do? Maybe you don't feel pretty enough maybe you don't want to end up in somebody's insagram. Deal with it, street photography is a soft view over stalking people. You have to ask for permission, strike a little chat with the person, explain him why are you doing this etc. Don't be a little faggot, communicate, be social

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 11:39:26 No.3088859 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088829
t. no idea what street photography is, but loves bokeh portraits of homeless men

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 15:30:06 No.3088953 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088829
You never tried street photography, did ya?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 16:23:50 No.3088991 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088829
part of the appeal of street photography is its spontaneity

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 17:03:51 No.3089033 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088081
Happy Ramadan

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 04 Jun 2017 17:27:52 No.3089052 Report

Quoted By: >>3091196

>>3088829
>you don't have the right to take pictures of strangers

but I do, commie

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 01:40:22 No.3089386 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088829
if someone is that concerned with privacy, they shouldn't go out in public

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 02:18:40 No.3089416 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088829
what the fuck? why are u even visiting /p/ jerk.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 08:45:12 No.3089550 Report

Quoted By: >>3089559 >>3093410

>>3088829
I just started street photography to overcome my social autism and anxiety and holy fuck you're retarded.

Anyway since we're talking about how to deal with people, I still have some hard time directly walking towards them and take an obvious pictures, so I take very shitty shots of building instead, I'm so self-conscious I don't even take the time to change the exposure of my shots, they're all terrible, tourist-tier pieces of shit, but I feel better about going out, it's kind of a therapy.

A weird thing I've noticed, besides people acting very differently when I'm around with my camera (a mix of expectations, mistrust and wonder), is that young people, mostly girls and even couples literally comes to me, without asking anything, I guess they want a picture taken but I'm way too much of an autist to take one or even look at them. I'm usually dressed as the cliché young photograph, I was on a huge sidewalk with plenty of room and a girl that could've been a model came walking right next to me, like she was my friend, and stayed at my pace for a good minute or two.

Should I stop being socially retarded? I saw at least a dozen of interesting shots but I was too afraid to take the chance.

This is killing me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 09:12:24 No.3089559 Report

Quoted By: >>3089566 >>3093422

>>3089550
Dress like a tourist, wear the camera like a tourist, people will take you as yet another clueless sheep (aka one of their own). Sit down and have a coffee, tea, while you look around lazily and note down how people act. If you see a scene just one hand your camera and take a quick snap, then continue your beverage/burger/newspaper like nothing happened.
Set the camera to wide angle, f/8, 1/125-1/250s and somewhere between 2-5m focus distance, set it to manual so half press wont shift focus and just take the quick snap. Crop in post later.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 09:33:26 No.3089566 Report

Quoted By:

>>3089559
Or even better, iso always 800-1600 and 1/250-1/500-1/1000 and even 1/1600 on sunny days, f should stay at around f/8-f/10-f/13.

When you're tired and don't know what to do do go shutter priority, set iso 1600, point the camera to the brightest point and move the shutter speed until the aperture becomes the smallest possible, so you won't end up with too bright shots.

Some cameras allow you to set auto ISO on M mode. Mine doesn't. If it did, I would still shoot S like I said before.

If you'reat least f/5.6 on a 20mm lens everything should already on focus. Focus on your feet or closer. If someone comes very close move the focus ring just a little closer.

That's it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 16:58:58 No.3089731 Report

Quoted By:

>not shooting wide open at all times
pleb

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 18:27:57 No.3089757 Report

Quoted By: >>3089766

50mm f1.2 with a speed booster so you get an equivalent of like.. f.75

Then shoot open in the sun at iso 400

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jun 2017 18:53:00 No.3089766 Report

Quoted By: >>3090338

>>3089757
>speed booster
nice meme

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 04:09:19 No.3090036 Report

Quoted By: >>3093429

my approach
>aim the camera at someone
>focus
>wait until the person looks at me
>take the picture
>smile, give thumbs up
>walk away while they glare at me

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 16:22:26 No.3090338 Report

Quoted By: >>3090346

>>3089766
How is that meme? I feel like everything's a meme on /p/.

>he doesn't shoot color like Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
>using meme color film

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 16:26:02 No.3090346 Report

Quoted By:

>>3090338
not really. but speed memers ARE a meme, because they belong to a meme system that needs a crutch for everything.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO DSC09587.png, 3MiB, 999x666

Anonymous Tue 06 Jun 2017 18:01:43 No.3090389 Report

Quoted By: >>3091157

I recently started using my phone. I hand camera on the belt, at my side. I use my phone ap for aiming and taking a shit - not looking directly at anyone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 21:03:22 No.3091157 Report

Quoted By:

>>3090389
still stalking

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 21:25:30 No.3091165 Report

Quoted By:

f8 and be there, faggot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 21:33:56 No.3091175 Report

Quoted By:

>>3088081
Check the work of Alair Gomes. 90% of his work are unknown shirtless chads on the brazilian beachs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 07 Jun 2017 22:16:47 No.3091196 Report

Quoted By:

>>3089052
>commie

sup isi

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 08 Jun 2017 11:54:57 No.3091453 Report

Quoted By: >>3091905

>>3088081
>Shooting without being noticed

A suppressor/silencer works wonders.

That or wait about 70 years until we get extremely advanced cyborg eye tech and wear sunglasses and pretend to be deaf.

!P3141593qY

!P3141593qY Fri 09 Jun 2017 06:37:03 No.3091905 Report

Quoted By:

>>3091453
or use electronic shutter

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2017 00:01:18 No.3093410 Report

Quoted By:

>>3089550
>I was on a huge sidewalk with plenty of room and a girl that could've been a model came walking right next to me, like she was my friend, and stayed at my pace for a good minute or two.

she was casing you

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2017 00:21:47 No.3093422 Report

Quoted By:

>>3089559
I did something similar yesterday, but more proactive. I pretended to be a tourist recording video with my compact camera. So I always had my camera in front of me, panning in every direction as if I were recording some personal travel video. Of course, I wasn't recording video, but snapping pictures of people.

It got really tense when I took a picture of someone almost right up to their face pretending they'd just gotten in the way of my video, but from this close you could hear the audible leaf shutter. Since I was shooting at 1/2000 shutter speed I switched to electronic shutter and problem was solved.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2017 00:44:10 No.3093429 Report

Quoted By:

>>3090036
This would definitely work on me. People giving me unexpected positive feedback stuns me like a deer in headlights.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2017 01:06:38 No.3093441 Report

Quoted By: >>3093457 >>3094069

Cradle your camera at around waist height. Look like you're just holding it. Make sure it's at a height and angle where you will generally get the shot. Make sure you have a focal length like 35mm or less.

No problems for me so far.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2017 01:24:15 No.3093457 Report

Quoted By: >>3093468

>>3093441
My dad does this with his Fujifilm X100t. He bought it specifically for its solid auto focus for faces and silent shutter - it's made him in the king of street creep shots.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2017 01:38:29 No.3093468 Report

Quoted By: >>3093470

>>3093457
Nice. does he share his shots?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Jun 2017 01:45:32 No.3093470 Report

Quoted By:

>>3093468
He's only got a private flickr, I'm afraid.

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO browniereflex20.jpg, 52KiB, 570x456

Anonymous Tue 13 Jun 2017 01:50:40 No.3094069 Report

Quoted By:

>>3093441
Like pic related?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Jun 2017 02:25:27 No.3094091 Report

Quoted By:

what I've done is learned some phrases in German and just snap shots. I've only had one black dude say something and he was like what are you taking pictures of? so I just goIch verstehe nicht??? and walk away smiling lmao..

Capcode	All Only User Posts Only Verified Posts Only Moderator Posts Only Manager Posts Only Admin Posts Only Developer Posts Only Founder Posts
Show Posts	All Only With Images Only Without Images Only Spoiler Images Only Non-Spoiler Images
Deleted Posts	All Only Deleted Posts Only Non-Deleted Posts
Ghost Posts	All Only Ghost Posts Only Non-Ghost Posts
Post Type	All Only Sticky Threads Only Opening Posts Only Reply Posts
Results	All Grouped By Threads
Order	Latest Posts First Oldest Posts First

On these archives

Your latest searches

Shooting without being noticed (tips about not pissing off people while trying to shoot)