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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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[–] mgutjr@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://preview.redd.it/4g3uducn5fwb1.jpeg?width=3277&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=284833b86940f0f5d77f6c7458696d0801b53216

This is another I took in SF as well. It can be intimidating to go up to people, but you have to engage. It’s the nature of shooting portraiture photography. And like any “muscle”, the more you use it, the better you get. You smile, you wink, you laugh a bit more. Jazz folks up. Ask their name. In the end, they’re just people.

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

Nice photo.