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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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How do you approach strangers? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months 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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[–] OK_Imputer@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I shoot first and ask questions later. thinking about this reminds me of the time i saw someone interesting on a bus pre-covid during one of the summer wildfires California has been having. Bright pink hair with a half face respirator looking down at a cell phone. I didn't have my camera on me so snapped a quick shot on my cell phone. I always have flash off but for some reason it went off this time. She looked up and we made eye contact for a second. Was slightly awkward the rest of the bus ride. I think I felt weirder about it because I was behind a cell phone instead of a dslr.