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How do you approach strangers? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by therake620@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I am a quite shy person ad often, when i find an interesting composition-subject (like a person doing something, a goup of people in a nice setting etc), i struggle to capture it because i feel like i’m being rude taking pictures without their approval, but at the same time i think that, by asking them, the spontaneity of the shot would be compromised. What’s your take about it?

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[–] AnDrE9_8@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

I get what you're saying, I bought my first camera last week and the other day I was trying to take some photos of car/motorbikes on a road close to my house. I see a motorbike coming so I shot a series of photo and as I'm scrolling too I could see the guy looked at me and sure as hell 30 sec later he comes back and ask me what I was doing (he seemed pretty bothered by it) so I showed him the pictures and said that I was new to cameras and I was trying it out, he still wasn't happy with it but he went his own way, not sure what he was hiding.