The biter bit: someone takes a picture of you on the street

[Nando]

It's a bit hypocritical to get upset, no? I wouldn't care. I'd like to be able to photograph them photographing me!

 

[Kim Coxon]

It will be even worse when the new 65ft boat arrives in May. 😉

Besides, it's not a REAL boat unless it's made of steel. 😀 😀

Kim

Get yourself an ugly GRP cabin cruiser like my Dawncraft and you will find that people point their cameras in another direction.😀

 

[Pherdinand]

i have never seen whats the big issue with it.
I honestly think people say / and maybe they already started to believe / they hate hate hate it just because that's some kind of standard behaviour required by society. You are not cool if you don't look annoyed and don't make a stupid face.
In the meantime, when the photos are ready, everybody, EVERYBODY wants to be on the most of them and looking great on them, of course.
If i knew i don't hurt anyones' feelings i would just call it what it is, hypocrisy.

 

[Marc-A.]

The worst one for me is taking a boat through the locks at Stratford-on-Avon. Stratford is always full of tourists and you can be sure that you will have about 20 cameras pointed at you. Kim

But Stratford-upon-Avon is such a beautiful city! (Stratford-upon-Avon or Stratford-on-Avon? is it the same?) I have great memories there.

He wasn't paparazzi (it was a film Pentax)

Kully, this would need a whole thread to be discussed 🙂

(X has a film Pentax) then (he is not a papazzi)

I love it.

 

[Kim Coxon]

Indeed and the area alongside the riveris one of the best parts hence the number of tourists. The Brits tend to ignore the boats but the foreigners especially the Japanese seem fascinated by them.

Kim

But Stratford-upon-Avon is such a beautiful city! (Stratford-upon-Avon or Stratford-on-Avon? is it the same?) I have great memories there.

 

[Marc-A.]

It's a bit hypocritical to get upset, no? I wouldn't care. I'd like to be able to photograph them photographing me!

Fernando, the worst is that I agree with you!!! 😱

i have never seen whats the big issue with it.
I honestly think people say / and maybe they already started to believe / they hate hate hate it just because that's some kind of standard behaviour required by society. You are not cool if you don't look annoyed and don't make a stupid face.
In the meantime, when the photos are ready, everybody, EVERYBODY wants to be on the most of them and looking great on them, of course.

Pherdinand, I agree with you. However, my question is about candid street shots. I don't care when friends take pictures of me. And I was very pleased that some RFF members took my pictures and even posted them on their website. But I caught some guys shooting me on the street, I'm not sure I would be ok. I don't know. What I know is I hate mobile phone snaps.

Btw here I am (thanks Gabriel) 🙂 :

edit: sorry for bout of narcissism, here's another taken by Robert Loop (without my permission!! 😀)

 

[Morca007]

I believe the appropriate word would be bemused.

 

[Leighgion]

Mark-A, you are a horrible person, should swear off photography and give all your gear to me. 😉

Seriously, I too do the stealth candids all the time and thus so long as other shooters have at least as much etiquette as I do, I don't see how I've a right to complain if they chose to take a picture of me. Naturally I would prefer to look good in it even if I never saw the shot, but can't control the taste, skill and timing of other photographers.

Taking photos four feet from a cafe window does strike me as a breach of etiquette though. I feel a photographer is obliged to try their best not to make subjects, willing or not, feel uncomfortable.

 

[wgerrard]

Ach! One more.

I was in London in the first week of December and saw this bloke with a big telephoto on an SLR taking photos of people sitting in the window of a coffee shop (from maybe 4ft from the window). .

Most folks will likely ignore noticing that they just happen to be a coincidental part of someone's photo. However, if someone has made you the sole subject -- say, by pointing a telephoto at you from four feet away -- then that's different. I'd certainly object.

 

[mwooten]

I'm a National League guy myself -- pitchers have to bat. 🙂
One stranger taking some other stranger's photograph ain't something to get too upset about. It's not like insults or rocks are being tossed. Some folks are shy about being photographed, and I don't shoot them.

 

[varjag]

Am reasonably good at noticing photographers, even the shy guys pointing their telezoom from their elbow few benches away, or eye-contact avoiding, sky-gazing hipshooters. When it happens and I got a free hand, I wave, otherwise smile stupidly into the camera. I know they are harmless folks, but street photography wasn't meant to be easy 🙂

OTOH I hardly ever react if someone photographs me in the open.. but so do most people around.

 

[Todd.Hanz]

several times I've caught people taking a shot of me while I was shooting on the street, I usually nod or engage them in conversation. We swap websites, most shoot digital and want to know more about my film cameras.

If you're gonna shoot street candids you've got to expect to run into someone else shooting the same.

Todd

 

[gb hill]

I would feel honored if some one took a snap of me, but one look at my avator and I don't think thats gonna happen. Then again if someone did take a photo of me I would probably wander what's out of place about me that one would do so, but I still wouldn't mind.

 

[John Rountree]

It's a bit hypocritical to get upset, no? I wouldn't care. I'd like to be able to photograph them photographing me!

I agree completely. Besides, if you are in public, what do you expect? Freedom, in this case, has two edges.

 

[wgerrard]

I agree completely. Besides, if you are in public, what do you expect? Freedom, in this case, has two edges.

Yeah, but we're not talking about people with cameras taking pictures of other people with cameras. Right does not imply permission or acceptance. I recognize your right to photograph me in public but that won't keep me from being annoyed.

Besides, there's a real issue about how close you can get to someone and still be considered 'in public' versus 'in my space'. If you're eating dinner at a restaurant and I sit down across from you and point a 135mm at your nose, are you still in public?

 

[Spider67]

When I used to ask I was offended if one just snapped away without asking....Now that I don't alwazys ask I live with it if someone finds me interesting.

 

[oscroft]

It's happened to me once or twice, and I really don't mind it at all - quite recently I caught the eye of someone pointing a camera in my direction, and he looked away and scurried off, which was a shame really.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I'd ask him for a print after introducing myself as a fellow photographer. I'm surprised no one else wouldn't want to see the photo taken of you. I usually look bad in photos, but i have a few done by friends that are actually quite nice. I always offer a print to anyone I photograph if i'm able to talk to the person.

 

[pachuco]

I thought it was strange that someone took my photo ( I am no Brad Pitt ) while I was shooting but I did not mind. I saw the photo later posted online and laughed at how silly I looked trying to get a good shot.

 

[Mackinaw]

I imagine I would be a bit surprised at first, but wouldn't really mind. If they were using a quality camera of some sort, I'd probably amble over and talk photography for a few minutes.

Jim B.