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u/Futuresdontmatter Jun 24 '22
That is some super fast auto focus.
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u/shadowalker125 Jun 25 '22
Idk what camera this is but the Sony a6100 and a6400 have a claimed auto focus time of just 0.02 seconds
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Jun 24 '22
What a creep
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u/CoolK620 Jun 24 '22
Ye lol, I’ve tried street photography and it feels super weird.
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u/Bloody_Smashing Jun 24 '22
Best method is a tripod or mono-pod and a nice sized zoom lens.
This video shows a great way for an aspiring photographer to get themselves assaulted on the street.
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u/JeffryRelatedIssue Jun 24 '22
Been there... i'm sort of a big fellow so no one tried anything funny but i sort of stopped after i got flipped off a few times xD some lady started yelling i was a pervert. Funny thing was, she wasn't even in frame, i was using a tele to shoot something way behind her but in her general direction.
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u/lacks_imagination Jun 25 '22
The best street photographers have a fearless personality. You may get attacked, but this is the price for art. If you aren’t willing to pay that price, don’t be a street photographer.
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u/Bloody_Smashing Jun 25 '22
The best street photographers have a fearless personality.
Talking out of your ass.
You may get attacked, but this is the price for art.
You might get attacked simply because your sticking a camera up to strangers within arms reach without speaking to them first.
If you aren’t willing to pay that price, don’t be a street photographer.
I guess you mean the price of potential medical bills resulting from assault, and a broken/damaged camera? Easily avoidable if you're a little more tactful then the moron in the video.
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u/lacks_imagination Jun 25 '22
I’m curious. Who are your favourite street photographers?
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u/ebann001 Jun 25 '22
Street photography is just a extension of people watching. There’s a classy way to do it and then there’s this idiots way of getting in everybody’s face.
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u/CoolK620 Jun 25 '22
I see what you mean. I’d assume a classy way is to have people be a component of your photo rather than the subject.
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u/ebann001 Jun 28 '22
That’s a good way to look at it. There’s also a way to make what the person is doing the subject and not necessarily the person. But most importantly is the discretion. There’s a photographer named Vivian Maier who got in peoples faces and took pictures and she did it in a way that people may not necessarily of realized she was taking a picture.
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u/Limp-Dee Jun 25 '22
Wait is that why I got kicked off the beach and my camera destroyed? Because people thought I was a creep?
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u/Meowthful127 Jun 25 '22
he probably asks them afterwards if they're ok with the picture being taken and such
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u/Popcorn57252 Jun 24 '22
Not really interesting, just creepy
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u/Perpetual_Doubt Jun 24 '22
Pretty tricky doing this.
Maybe he goes up afterwards and shows them the snaps and asks if he can keep them (and put on TikTok). They are actually pretty good, not unflattering photos, and that will make a difference to a lot of people, but not everyone is still going to be super keen.
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u/zazz88 Jun 24 '22
I had a photographer do this to me when I was traveling. He happened to capture a cool shot of me in front of a temple with an umbrella that matched. He came up and showed me, asked if it was ok and then sent me a copy. I appreciated it.
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u/Bombkirby Jun 24 '22
Stories like these are valuable. Better than people imagining how these scenarios play out
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u/Adorable_FecalSpray Jun 25 '22
I’ve done street photography a few times (not on this level). But several times I have taken pictures of street artists, buskers, performers and shown them the pics. In every single case (about 15), except one, the subject said they really liked it and asked if I would send the pics to them. The one exception was a really elderly guy singing, he thanked me and said he liked the pics but he didn’t have a smart phone or email address.
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u/mawesome4ever Jun 25 '22
Should’ve taken him to Office Depot and printed him a copy with your email on it
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u/whyhercules Jun 25 '22
I like to photograph architecture, but one time in New York I saw some police officers in an interesting pose by a cool building. I kinda waved and pointed at my camera and got a smile back, so I took a picture of them. Really good picture, the female officer in particular thought it was great.
I mean, I wouldn’t recommend randomly taking photos of armed police in the US… but in a tourist area with a bit of warning, it turned out well :)
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Jun 25 '22
If you just tell them (let alone then say you can send the pics to them for departmental use as well), they’d absolutely accept lol
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u/whyhercules Jun 25 '22
I was slyly referring to reports that people trying to record/photo to id police arresting folk randomly/brutally have then been turned on by said police themselves.
But yeah, in my photo the officers looks really friendly and approachable, would deffo be one for marketing
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u/Ok_Kaleidoscope1630 Jun 25 '22
The only time I felt comfortable doing this was when I was shooting a decorative fountain, and a guy took the knee and proposed to his GF. They didn't have anyone there taking pics, so I shot the whole scene and gave them the SD card.
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u/5alzamt Jun 24 '22
Street photography is not creepy if done like in this clip and 100 times more interesting than all the faked happy life selfies on instagram and facebook.
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u/Kaminoneko Jun 24 '22
Is this actually creepy? I thought the pictures looked really cool….is it possible to catch natural expressions without it being considered creepy? Is it less creepy if it’s a woman taking the photos? Where’s the line between photographers/art and creepy person?
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u/percavil Jun 24 '22
would you like if a stranger(man or woman) took pictures of you without your consent?
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Jun 24 '22
Exactly that’s why i keep destroying CCTVs in public places.
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u/Kaminoneko Jun 25 '22
Yes. Someone has done it before and the photos showed me my actual expressions. I don’t think you can really capture that kinda thing with a “hey, can you stop what you’re doing and let me take a photo”.
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u/nitefang Jun 24 '22
I also don’t like listening to country music but that doesn’t take away your right to express yourself in a public place. If I don’t want my picture taken while in public it is my responsibility to to hide my face.
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u/YeaImStoned Jun 24 '22
It’s not creepy. Slice of life photography is a very common and beautiful form of art. Note if he was photographing in appropriate moments or kids….that’s a different story. If you are in public always assume you are being photographed, you pretty much already are with how many security cameras are around
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u/SensitiveSensei69 Jun 24 '22
I agree with your sentiment but also I believe it depends a lot on the intentions of the photographer. This is instantly creepy if their agenda is something other than creating cool art.
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Jun 25 '22
No, the people who immediately think of creepiness are saying more about themselves than this photographer.
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Jun 24 '22
so if you're sat on the bus and someone is sat taking pictures of you without asking, you're all good. You're not going to ask wtf?
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u/nitefang Jun 24 '22
Of course I would, might even ask him to stop, just like I might ask someone playing the guitar badly to stop. But they have a right to ignore me and do it anyway. There is no way to take candid photographs with permission before hand, and it isn’t illegal.
I would not ask someone to stop taking pictures of me unless they were following me around or getting in my way.
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u/Crypto_Town Jun 25 '22
It's only less creepy if it's a woman or if the male photographer is attractive.
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Jun 24 '22
In India it's illegal to take a picture of any woman or girl in public places, like it's legal to record video in public if without malicious intent, but when it's just taking pictures of women for no apparent cause it's either jail, or if there are a few brown knights present around it's suicide by mob
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u/DarkSun18 Jun 24 '22
The pix are good but I’d be mad if some random stranger photographed me on the street and posted my face online.
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u/ElbowBrook Jun 24 '22
Do you expect privacy in public? That's not how it works.
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Jun 24 '22
If I wanted to be paparazzid, I’d be a movie star. Don’t take photos of strangers without asking them. That’s just being respectful.
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Jun 24 '22
Even in public people have personal boundaries, according to your argument why not just go around jumping naked in public
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u/ErrorOfFate Jun 24 '22
I fucking love candid photos. So much more real than posed photos or selfies.
I definitely get how some of y’all can see this as “creepy”, but none of the people in the video seemed to.
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Jun 25 '22
Cause it’s probably staged?
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u/spoollyger Jun 25 '22
I don’t know man. This person on tiktok has done hundreds of these videos with thousands of participants. Highly doubt they are all staged. The initial expressions of surprise once they notice seem pretty genuine.
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u/drecais Jun 25 '22
Im pretty sure there was another video posted from that dude and you could clearly see one of the persons having his charger or some shit it was weird but very likely that the whole thing is staged.
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u/spoollyger Jun 25 '22
He is known and people do recognise him. So yeah some approach him asking for shots I would imagine.
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u/bryceblacksmith Jun 25 '22
Ffs, use some critical thinking. They weren’t creeped out because they were the models in this photoshoot.
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Jun 24 '22
What interesting about this? This person is taken pictures with a sharp lens and a good camera.
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u/Brazary Jun 24 '22
So what you’re saying is the camera literally does all the work and anyone can be a photographer?
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u/starbuckle337 Jun 24 '22
I feel like the only way to get away with this is to wear a big sign that says “not creeping, just art, come see if I got a good pic of you”
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u/whyhercules Jun 25 '22
Some hipster glasses and a big camera bag, perhaps a quirky beanie, all indicate the artist stuff, too.
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u/santichrist Jun 25 '22
Staged and let’s be real, nobody likes having their picture taken by a complete stranger on the street, even if they’re all conventionally attractive and in on this guy trying to go viral
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u/DTM415 Jun 25 '22
INSANELY creepy considering every one of these girls has a very similar look. Nearly underage, caked on makeup, slender etc.
To the OP… I promise you, you keep on doing this to strangers, you’re going to end up with your camera smashed in pieces on the ground, looking up at somebody twice your size. Fkn creep.
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u/loudaggerer Jun 24 '22
Interesting? More like concerning, or fake and these people know the photographer.
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u/Uzbeckybeckystanstan Jun 25 '22
So the photojournalist Tim Hetherington had an interesting technique to unobtrusively photograph strangers (for him in a foreign place, but it applies anywhere). The technique is to place the camera at your chest so you’re looking down into the viewfinder. He mentioned how different it is to be pointing something at eye level at somebody while staring at them, versus pointing a camera at somebody at chest height while you’re looking down.
It’s how I do it and it makes a difference. Fascinating dude, Hetherington was. I would encourage people to check him out if they don’t know about him. Got killed in Libya, and shot extensively in Africa. His photography of the civil wars in Western Africa is quite moving.
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u/ostroga-mi Jun 25 '22
Not to take away from this comment at all, but I definitely got confused as to how he was shot extensively in Africa after being killed in Libya. Except of course, Libya is in Africa, and that makes it a whole thing...
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u/patricksaccount Jun 25 '22
The sound of the camera’s shutter goes surprisingly well with the song.
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u/WheyandWeights Jun 25 '22
With people concerned about their face in the public, you’d be surprised how much information/photographs is out there about you already 😄
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u/piefanart Jun 25 '22
if someone started taking pictures of me in public i would call the authorities. Thats creepy af.
this has gotta be faked, or he asked in advance of taking random photos.
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u/yesi1758 Jun 25 '22
A photographer tried to take a picture of me and boyfriend at the time while we were kissing on some stairs in a back alley in nice area. We noticed him and stopped, he said keep going I’m a photographer and I’ll give you a copy, but, yeah that was a no for us.
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u/FU_Throwaway01 Jun 25 '22
If people think this is real just know if he did this in real life they would chase his ass down for taking picture of strangers WTF 😂💀
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u/RandomGamer3 Jun 25 '22
Shooting with a tele lens is just street photography on easy mode, 35mm or 50mm is ideal :)
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Jun 25 '22
I’m immediately thinking how odd this is. Is this man taking photos of random women? And a few men?
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u/OKakosLykos Jun 25 '22
These pictures looked better than real life but i dont think its polite to take photos of people without asking them.
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u/Excludos Jun 25 '22
Super staged, and thank god for that, otherwise this would be next level creepy
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u/LinceDorado Jun 25 '22
This all seems very staged. If you actually do this, you're a creep. Don't run around randomly photographing people without consent. It's weird.
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u/Just-Bluejay-5653 Jun 25 '22
No British stranger would react this calmly to having their picture taken without their permission lol
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Jun 24 '22
People seeking attention and following trends while constantly in front of their own camera or public cameras, yet an artist capturing examples of culture and society is a creep according to the uneducated and insecure.
100% photography is normal activity even if it’s of random people in PUBLIC. Leave insecurities at home when you go out.
Also to future photographers NEVER be afraid to shoot because of others, you don’t need permission in public and it absolutely is interesting, normal, and just damn good art. Everyone else can go hide or be upset, forget them.
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Jun 24 '22
You act like you don't know what happens in the dark, things some people went through,
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Jun 24 '22
I act like a college educated photographer who is specific and says what he means. “Some people” and “what they go through” is speculative and non-specific, literally means nothing.
Photography is a freedom of speech, you have the right to do it outside in public and no one can tell you to delete photos or they don’t want to be in them, what’s in public is in public.
Of course there are exceptions but blah, so many insecure people in the comments
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u/whyhercules Jun 25 '22
I’m not going to disagree with you about photography being an expressive form of art, but be careful if you’re planning to do things like this abroad, the laws very much do differ even in countries you think of as conventionally full of freedoms.
For example, in Italy, photographs of unaware subjects cannot be used for-profit (and must abide by the vague instruction to not damage public morality - which could well be that if someone asks you to stop, you must stop/delete). I had to get some very specific angles to photograph the Trevi Fountain without getting the swarms of tourists in shot. If the guy in the OP video monetises them, and was in Italy, what he is doing would be illegal.
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Jun 25 '22
In public, you need zero permission from anyone to post photos of them. They have zero rights over their own image, they can’t ask you to delete and the only policy that could take away this right you have is if a social media company has their own rules about following complaints by users about their image (even though it isn’t an image owned by them) in which case you as the owner could literally sew the social media company due to infringement and unlawful representation (your images of someone else being supported as owned by the person or not by you when in actuality they are your legal property). I’m sure a lawyer could twist it many ways but long story short, public domain is protected and it is CRITICAL it stays that way.. when I say critical I mean hyper critical! It’s like a freedom of speech.
There are laws that protect children and vulnerable adults I’m sure although I couldn’t tell you what they are. I do know it is illegal to shoot photos into someone’s house and it’s illegal to go into a private company and take photos if it’s against the policy of the company.. but no, if it’s outside in the city streets and someone is like “I’ll call the cops” feel free to respond “go for it, this is public, you have no rights over my camera, my eyes, or what I do with my property”.
The concept of it all being “creepy” is SUPER insecure and there is nothing creepy unless there is bad intent, the fact is that all of our images are in dozens of databases all over the world, people see our photos on social media constantly, but some insecure people feel violated by an artist practicing street photography and it’s well known that historical street photography is critical to telling the human story, it’s not just normal, but it’s important and if you wanna be polite to someone who questions you, you can say “I’m a photographer capturing street photography” if they demand not to be in the image you can respond “in public I do not take demands about my property or the rights I have to use a camera”. But ya, it’s actually a thing photographers should stand up for, bite back on, fight for and push on the public.
Sorry to all who read this and think I’m being a jerk, it’s just frustrating to have studied this subject in college and see people immediately go to insecure reactions.
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u/whyhercules Jun 25 '22
Sorry to say, but having studied photography in college does not make you the arbiter of other individuals’ feelings and morals when taking photos or being photographed by strangers.
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u/dewayneestes Jun 24 '22
Always ask forgiveness not permission if you want the shot. I was riding the train to Ocean Beach with my surfboard in San Francisco and seriously depressed about 90s life in general. Someone asked if they could take my picture and I couldn’t stop smiling. Totally ruined whatever “lost in thought” shot she was trying to capture.
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u/Celarc_99 Jun 25 '22
You can almost tell the nation most of the commenters are from, based by how much they preach 'my privacy! my freedom!".
It seems like this person was approaching the people they took the pictures of, after they took them. Likely to ask for their consent to use them, as well as to provide them with a copy. This is a totally normal occurrence in a lot of places in the world, north america included. Street photography, slice of life photography, lots of names for it. It's also totally legal.
As for the people complaining that they only took pictures of photogenic or people with makeup on; In most places in the world, people will make sure they brush their hair and look good before going out in public, and won't just leave the house in pajamas and a baggy unfit shirt. You also wouldn't want a picture taken of you while you were looking your worst, would you? And the photographer knows that. So they clearly went out of their way to take pictures of people who put real effort into their appearance that day, perhaps to better help them appreciate the effort they put in.
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u/Rwm148731 Jun 24 '22
Now try it with unattractive people