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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 1 year 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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[–] bahgheera@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

So in the past a trick I've used is to let the camera hang by the strap, and have a bulb in my pocket. When I see someone interesting I aim in the general direction and snap the photo. This accomplishes two things - not only do you not take your subject out of the moment, the random nature of not using the view finder gives you some very cool angles.