>>3500186Dress well, groom yourself well, get the most professional looking camera you can slap together. Just throw on a cheap flash and a battery grip. Wear a nice look outfit, button down shirt and slacks are enough. Shave, trim your bears, get a haircut. Fucking bathe and put on some mild cologne. All this shit will change how people look at you.
Most important is to act like you belong there. Like it's literally your job to be taking photos and people who see you should apologize to you for getting in your way. If you act like a scared little bitch, people will sense it and they'll think you're up to no good. If you act bored/constantly mildly annoyed, people will most likely think that you're a reporter or some shit just doing your job, and most people don't want to fuck with reporters.
Or if you don't think you can pull off the lie that you're a reporter if someone calls you out, you can make up some other bullshit. Like you're a blogger for a travel blog and you're scouting the location, or you're a fine arts major on assignment for class. Both lies give you that sense of 'authority' that you're supposed to be there taking pictures. Nobody wants to fuck with a student who's just trying to do a class project, unless they're a special king of dickhead.
If after all of that they still want to get confrontational, just fucking walk away because there's obviously no reasoning with someone like that.
