Don't ever even consider becoming a news photographer.
I must be getting old, but I am still of the school that believes good manners and consideration trump our "right" to stick a camera where it is not welcome.
Just a comment.............I do not like my picture being taken. So when someone points a camera my way I just wag my finger and mouth the word "no". Works just fine. No drama needed.
Don't ever even consider becoming a news photographer.
It is becoming increasingly clear you are the problem, not the woman in your story.
If he cannot do that, then Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and so many others, were wrong to photograph what went on around them.
Have you seen the video of HCB stalking his subjects, surreptitiously and quickly getting a photo before they knew what was going on? Geez, what a creep!
It is clear that here on APUG we have 2 "streams": one who are on side of OP, and another who are on side of screaming women and kid showing finger.
I bet first "stream" has Bresson and Winogrand as best photographer in their mind, while second has AA?
Anybody consider HCB to be the best photographer - but is on a side of screaming women and kid showing finger?
Is that how a pervert dresses?
Cartier-Bresson was not legitimate?
As per the Weegee comment above, context, my friend.
Could be, who knows one way or the other.
Different time and place, different rules.
WHERE in that post did it say that her parents were there? WHERE did it say anyone else scolded him? And WHERE is there even an indication that he "bothered" anyone else?
there was an elderly couple on the bench opposite and showing that they were still very much in love with each other. I took a picture of them. Then an old man came along wearing a trilby hat, looking distinguished. I took a shot of him.
Then, what I can best describe as Vicki Pollard arrived, replete with the mandatory children. One of them began running towards the back of the bench and leaping high in the air over it, between the older people. "That would make a cool picture" I thought. He did it countless times, though each time I got ready to take the shot, he didn't jump. I made three attempts and gave up.
Five minutes went by, then they got up to leave.
If your kid is jumping around, people are going to look at him. He has drawn their attention. And if they look at him jumping around, they just might take pictures of his antics. The woman overreacted.
The OP was seated on a bench, while things happened around him, which he photographed. If he cannot do that, then Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and so many others, were wrong to photograph what went on around them.
Have you seen the video of HCB stalking his subjects, surreptitiously and quickly getting a photo before they knew what was going on? Geez, what a creep!
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seemed when i read it the people were all related to eachother
the older ( disgusted ) couple and the lady with the kids ...
Maybe you read "distinguished" as "disgusted"?
No, a Leica doesn't make you any more legitimate.
Just a comment.............I do not like my picture being taken. So when someone points a camera my way I just wag my finger and mouth the word "no". Works just fine. No drama needed.
I must disagree with you here Michael as Leicas take the best photographs!
If you actually publish books like some of the real street photographers that are well known, then you have some legitimacy to your claim, if you just keep them for yourself and not for example posting them in galleries or on a website that advertised street photography, then you kind of are being a creep.... Because you're taking snaps and keeping them to yourself.
if you want to stalk and photograph a stranger's children without so much as a hello or introduction you have to expect that eventually you will run into someone who objects.
Oh wow and here I thought Vivian Maier was a street photographer. Turns out she was just a creep.
Please, nobody take this the wrong way. It is just a simple observation of fact :-
Female (or male) attraction is just an inescapable part of our inner animal that we, by calling ourselves human, have attempted to sweep under the carpet.
No amount of etiquet or social conditioning will remove this basic drive that is in all of us.
Being attracted to a passing female/male is nothing more than being the male/female of our species.
Business license of course... But I do agree with asking beforehand. Unfortunately spontaneous events are out.
Lol. Oh, boy. Here we go again.
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Ken
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