Photography

I also try to do my best to avoid single or directly shown people. But here in Germany there are real strict right base for that, and most people don't understand it and think nobody can publish a photo with them on. So you often get into discussion when people think you are photographing them

Where I live there are laws about photographing people in a way they can be recognised; so yeah, anonymous photos for me as well, thank you.

Whenever I do photograph people, I usually try to do it so you genuinely can’t see their face. I wouldn’t want someone to be photographed, and perhaps have that likeness sold for profit without my permission. That’s not right.

I typically stick to animals that won’t attack me (because I once was attacked by a crow and I genuinely am concerned it will happen again, so animals are photographed very far away from me) inanimate flowers amd landscapes lol

I like to do long exposures with an ND filter, so people are reduced to being ghostly visages and there's little detail to glean from the person's image.

Maybe there’s an also genuine - and justified - change in people’s concerns about how their photo will be used. Probably 99% of these photos are now taken with the intention of sharing them online in some form, so the potential for your image being used or exploited in a way you don’t like or approve of, and seen by many thousands of people, is hugely increased. That risk was just not the same in the 1960s and 70s.

Also there’s always been a surreptitious aspect to it and some photographers are just more comfortable with that than others - people were using concealed cameras to do candid photography in the 1930s.

Nope, still taking pictures of people. If you look at the old greats, most of them have pictures of people. Having people in frame shows something more humane, more alive and more real.

Same here. I don't think whether it's good or bad. It also might change at time. The cool thing about consciously taking photos is, that your own taste changes over time. Sometimes buying a new lens might make you shift to portaraits, or testing different angles or parameters makes your photos static instead of dynamic.

I avoid showing faces too, unless it's a crowdy street. But in general, lately I've been moving to capturing animals and plants on streests rather than humans.

I've been like that from the start. I'll include people in my photos but never liked going up into their faces and taking photos of them. Not my thing.

People are the reason i don't street photography, they ether walk into a shot (i shoot mostly 35mm so that wastes a shot) and i think it's a bit creepy taking photos of people i don't know, i don't want people taking photos of me of my kids.

I've always tried to avoid taking photos of people 🙏 never say right with me

Yeah.... I've been avoiding it as best as I can.. but almost impossible in NY.

Ye, I try not have ppl in photos