street photography + harassment...

B-9 said:
Buddy system anyone?

Why so many negative comments?
If you do not have a positive statement, keep it on your end of the keyboard.

IM SICK OF THESE BADGERS MERKING UP INNOCENT THREADS.
I believe this is in the forum rules of conduct!
keep it appropriate, polite, and stop with the self-righteous crap.

Don't like street shooters? I hear fedmiranda has a forum...
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What's really funny about this is how ridiculous it is to tell people to stop using negative comments and following that up with negative statement in all caps.

That's some good irony.
 
jsrockit said:
Aren't your feelings the same for the bulk of the work in any genre?
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no, i don't believe so. i will reflect upon the question more but in particular, this genre bothers me most. in the defence of the photographers it is a very difficult genre to get right. with that said, i see a lot of work submitted tot the gallery and online that is not in line with the hype it is presented with.

as you know, i also photograph for living and the direct impact of peoples distrust of the 'street photographer' is very real in my day to day.
 
rivercityrocker said:
What's really funny about this is how ridiculous it is to tell people to stop using negative comments and following that up with negative statement in all caps.

That's some good irony.
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It was meant ironically, but seriously lets chill with the flaming.

Also, my statment in all caps, isn't at all negative, simply stating a fact with emphasis.
A good forum is based on its sense of community, if you feel the need to soil that, be my guest. I can simply see my way out of it via the click of a button.

I'm sure I can find another thread to leave positive comments.
Goodluck with all the rambling.

Buddy system no takers?! Lol
 
Fun Fact of the day: Devin is sick of forum badgers plastering negativety on one of his favourite forums.

This has been your fun fact of the day, stay classy rff'ers
 
Hard to follow the chat above. Something about killing woman.

Old thread, sort of.

Not a big deal someone is yelling at you for taking pics on the street. Happens, shocking at the moment it happens, no big deal later.

Was in Peterborough, ON, last year. Typical Canadian town. Great on manufacturing era, still OK once we were outsourced. As results, guys who would be in the factory are on welfare and in the streets burning their killed by globalization time.
Went down to the river. After some time rocks started to land near by me. Realized male buddies couple wasn't happy on me to point my camera to their direction. Walked up, threatened by same white thrashers, while they keep on throughing stones at me.
They didn't follow, if, I have the knife with me with fixing blade... Canadian poachers left it at river bank, using it to open Salmon for eggs... My friend picked it up on this day and gave it to me on this day.
 
I shot them….

I shot them….

gb hill said:
I just remembered the last time i was out shooting trains (with a camera) some guy came up & asked me if I was with google earth. I said no, just a train nut! What about these "Google Earth cars" that photograph your house & put it on the internet? Why don't people get upset over that crap? I'd like to see a reality show where people run out of their houses throwing stuff at google earth cars as they pass by.

So perhaps the next time some one ask what you are doing tell them your with google earth.
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Reminds me of when I was looking to buy a house last year and spotted one of their vehicles going down the street. I shot them while they got me also. Now I'm sure the owner of the house is wondering who the guy is standing on their porch…..
 

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emraphoto said:
it remains pertinent and bothersome to me as i photograph in public for a living. day in and day out. we must, at some point, recognize the building anti-sentiment and work towards alleviating it or a situation where the very act of photographing in public is forbidden will be on us. in many places this sentiment is already well entrenched.
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Really.....
How do you think that would be enforced, why we all have cameras in our phones etc.
:rolleyes:
 
Coopersounds said:
Really.....
How do you think that would be enforced, why we all have cameras in our phones etc.
:rolleyes:
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It's not against the law to be rude, but that doesn't mean you won't piss people off if you act rudely all the time. I think that's the more important thing to keep in mind.
 
Exdsc said:
One of the more peculiar observations that i have made is people will let you photograph them if you 'look like you know what you're doing' and if you 'look like a proper photographer'.

Its hard for me to explain but as an example watch videos of some of the famous photographers and see how they get away with shots that will get most nervous amateurs in trouble.
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what does a proper photographer look like? Do you have a lanyard photo ID badge made up or just carry several camera harnesses and bags or what look grants immunity in your opinion?
 
Coopersounds said:
Really.....
How do you think that would be enforced, why we all have cameras in our phones etc.
:rolleyes:
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enforcement and a negative, if not hostile response to photographing people in a public environment are two different concepts. i cannot speak to Australia however I can speak to a broad spectrum of other locales and to be surprised by a hostile response to your activities, despite the copious amount of cellphone snappers out there, would be naive at best. it is common, as this thread would elude.

if i could sharpen this crayon down to a point, it would be something like this. people are suspicious and hostile and this appears to be a growing phenomena. it would be prudent to re-think how we respond to this and how we conduct ourselves whilst out and about. the righteousness of our activity or position must be measured with the public's perception, which i know is entirely different than reality.

it will never be my intention to create a scale of who should be able to perform this task or who shouldn't. it is incredibly frustrating when i am unable to complete the particulars of an assignment, as the locals have been spooked by the big game hunters of Flickr. even more so, when the material measures up very poorly.
 
I don't mean we can be rude, also I have only been in Australia for 5 of the last 15 years, the rest of those being in London for work. I never experienced hassle with my street photos there on anywhere I travelled.
Perhaps for those that are "working" and having issues a simple card, smile and display of some of your work may help?
 
B-9 said:
It was meant ironically, but seriously lets chill with the flaming.

Also, my statment in all caps, isn't at all negative, simply stating a fact with emphasis.
A good forum is based on its sense of community, if you feel the need to soil that, be my guest. I can simply see my way out of it via the click of a button.

I'm sure I can find another thread to leave positive comments.
Goodluck with all the rambling.

Buddy system no takers?! Lol
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Was I flaming something on here? Did I say something that "soiled the community" other than pointing out the irony in the post that you yourself said was posted ironically? :confused:
 
emraphoto said:
employing half my brain... elaborate... obfuscated... resentment... righteous... sentiment... pertinent... bothersome... anti-sentiment... entrenched... disconnect... frustrating.
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What exactly is anti-sentiment?

I prefer writing diatribes* against disgruntled* photographers who occupy their time posting pedantic* polemics* about street photography.
 
rivercityrocker said:
Was I flaming something on here? Did I say something that "soiled the community" other than pointing out the irony in the post that you yourself said was posted ironically? :confused:
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Don't worry 'bout it. Some people tend to live in their own world. Calling an opinion fact :bang:

I think you were spot on :cool:
 
Some people tend to live in their own world. Calling an opinion fact
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That is the truth of it.

In forty odd years of taking pictures, I've only once been challenged and, would you believe it, when I was taking pictures of chimneys. :eek:

It was quite clear I was dealing with someone with fairly serious mental problems, so I did what I feel we should all do in such situations: I walked quietly away.

As someone above didn't quite say, all these assertions of hitting people with cameras and whatever sound pretty much like people trying to pretend that they're something, which they almost certainly are not. :rolleyes:
 
Sejanus.Aelianus said:
As someone above didn't quite say, all these assertions of hitting people with cameras and whatever sound pretty much like people trying to pretend that they're something, which they almost certainly are not. :rolleyes:
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I'll admit it... I've threatened to hit someone with a camera in San Francisco, but I was secretly hoping I didn't have to. However, I did feel threatened and would have done it if I had to. Luckily, we both just left. I'm not a tough guy (having had my last fight half a lifetime ago), but sometimes you may have to do something you don't want to do.
 
everyone is a street photographer today, when everyone is doing something, it usually means its better to stay away from that activity and find something more meaningful and satisfying creatively.

street photography is a dead end genre, because streets are boring and so are the people who inhabit it.
 
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