Photos in the street, sort of.

[ClaremontPhoto]

Yes, it's been done and discussed in here.

I'm in a bar, and a person asked me to photograph them.

Bar tender gets heavy and tells me to stop.

Even though I tell him that person asked me.

All persons in bar (about ten) then tell the bar tender the same: they like my photos.

Bar tender tells me not to photograph.

Of course I carry on and because there's no flash he doesn't realise and customers are in on the joke.

 

[lubitel]

sounds like an interesting relationship youo built with your subjects 🙂 they actually ask you to photograph them? wow. did you get a shot of the bar tender?

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Not the bar tender per se but when he said to stop and go in the street I went in the street and photographed him from there! He went a bit crazy and the customers thought it was the funniest thing they have seen.

 

[Magus]

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[Bryce]

Jon-
I shot all these at the bar Halloween night, and many more. I wasn't being discrete at all; I was using medium format gear and a huge flashgun! In fact, the last picture is of the bar's owner being harrassed by two of my friends...
Maybe looking as though you're trying to be discrete is the problem? You know, if you act like you have something to hide people assume that you do?

 

[Bryce]

Here's what I looked like.... Maybe it was the disguise that did it?

 

[nico]

Not the bar tender per se but when he said to stop and go in the street I went in the street and photographed him from there! He went a bit crazy and the customers thought it was the funniest thing they have seen.

Ahahaa!! 😀
that's great Jon!
N.

 

[nico]

Jon-
... maybe looking as though you're trying to be discrete is the problem? You know, if you act like you have something to hide people assume that you do?

Good point Bryce,
usually, if I do not ask previous permission to shoot I give people the opportunity to stop me before I do; this, with also behaving in a polite and friendly way, works quite well and avoid me to have any kind of discussion or argument.
Anyway, this is not the problem Jon had, he just met a weird guy ....

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Yeah the camera was upfront.

The clients were laughing and the guy was crazy.

But I was on the street.

Taking photos.

 

[lubitel]

bryce that outfit is awesome! you look like some kind of a 50s reporter. or do you look like that every day?

 

[RayPA]

Jon-
I shot all these at the bar Halloween night, and many more. I wasn't being discrete at all; I was using medium format gear and a huge flashgun! In fact, the last picture is of the bar's owner being harrassed by two of my friends...
Maybe looking as though you're trying to be discrete is the problem? You know, if you act like you have something to hide people assume that you do?

Why is it that Gumby always gets all the action?


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[BrianShaw]

So what's the problem -- bartender having a bad hair day?

 

[5nap5hot]

Here's what I looked like.... Maybe it was the disguise that did it?

OMG ...Weegee!

 

[robert blu]

uhhh, too many people are afraid that photographers can steel their souls by taking pictures of them ! these are the modern times in which many of us are living...
robert

 

[IGMeanwell]

Jon-
I shot all these at the bar Halloween night, and many more. I wasn't being discrete at all; I was using medium format gear and a huge flashgun! In fact, the last picture is of the bar's owner being harrassed by two of my friends...
Maybe looking as though you're trying to be discrete is the problem? You know, if you act like you have something to hide people assume that you do?

That is absolutely classic ... I love the Captain Spaulding costume (mmm evil clowns)

Hopefully next halloween I'll have plans that consists of drinking, costumes, and hopefully some old fashioned Weegee style photography (minues the death)